Abstract
Gender is associated with several features of psychotic disorders, including age of illness onset, symptomatology, a higher prevalence of history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and needs for care. Childhood sexual abuse is associated with adverse mental health consequences but as there is a gender difference in stress reactivity, there may be a differential impact of CSA on psychopathology, age of psychosis onset and needs for care in First Episode Psychosis (FEP) patients. We hypothesized that a history of abuse would be associated with lowering of age of onset, increased symptomatology and more unmet needs in women but not men. A total of 444 FEP patients have been recruited within the context of the GET UP trial. Symptomatology has been assessed using the PANSS scale, needs for care with the CAN scale and childhood abuse with the CECA-Q scale. Childhood sexual abuse was more frequent among female patients [22.6% in women vs 11.6% in men (OR = 0.45, p
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 164-171 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Schizophrenia Research |
Volume | 210 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2019 |
Keywords
- *Childhood abuse
- *Childhood trauma
- *FEP
- *First episode psychosis
- *Gender
- *Physical abuse
- *Psychosis
- *Sexual abuse