Childhood adversities and post-traumatic stress disorder: evidence for stress sensitisation in the World Mental Health Surveys

Although childhood adversities are known to predict increased risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after traumatic experiences, it is unclear whether this association varies by childhood adversity or traumatic experience types or by age. To examine variation in associations of childhood adv...

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Published in:British journal of psychiatry Vol. 211; no. 5; pp. 280 - 288
Main Authors: McLaughlin, Katie A., Koenen, Karestan C., Bromet, Evelyn J., Karam, Elie G., Liu, Howard, Petukhova, Maria, Ruscio, Ayelet Meron, Sampson, Nancy A., Stein, Dan J., Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio, Alonso, Jordi, Borges, Guilherme, Demyttenaere, Koen, Dinolova, Rumyana V., Ferry, Finola, Florescu, Silvia, de Girolamo, Giovanni, Gureje, Oye, Kawakami, Norito, Lee, Sing, Navarro-Mateu, Fernando, Piazza, Marina, Pennell, Beth-Ellen, Posada-Villa, José, ten Have, Margreet, Viana, Maria Carmen, Kessler, Ronald C.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.11.2017
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Subjects:
Abuse
Adolescents
Adult Survivors of Child Abuse - statistics & numerical data
Adult Survivors of Child Adverse Events - statistics & numerical data
Adults
Adverse childhood experiences
Adversity
Age Factors
Anxiety
Associations
Child abuse & neglect
Child of Impaired Parents - statistics & numerical data
Child sexual abuse
Childhood
Children
Columns
Epidemiology
Global Health - statistics & numerical data
Health surveys
Health Surveys - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Infants
Life course
Life events
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Mental health
Mental Health - statistics & numerical data
Polls & surveys
Post traumatic stress disorder
Psychiatry
Psychological Trauma - epidemiology
Psychopathology
Royalties
Salut mental
Sexual abuse
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - epidemiology
Trastorn per estrès posttraumàtic
Trauma
Traumatic life events
Victimization
Violence
Vulnerability
Colombia
France
United States > US
Japan
Spain
ISSN:0007-1250, 1472-1465, 1472-1465
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Summary:Although childhood adversities are known to predict increased risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after traumatic experiences, it is unclear whether this association varies by childhood adversity or traumatic experience types or by age. To examine variation in associations of childhood adversities with PTSD according to childhood adversity types, traumatic experience types and life-course stage. Epidemiological data were analysed from the World Mental Health Surveys ( = 27 017). Four childhood adversities (physical and sexual abuse, neglect, parent psychopathology) were associated with similarly increased odds of PTSD following traumatic experiences (odds ratio (OR) = 1.8), whereas the other eight childhood adversities assessed did not predict PTSD. Childhood adversity-PTSD associations did not vary across traumatic experience types, but were stronger in childhood-adolescence and early-middle adulthood than later adulthood. Childhood adversities are differentially associated with PTSD, with the strongest associations in childhood-adolescence and early-middle adulthood. Consistency of associations across traumatic experience types suggests that childhood adversities are associated with generalised vulnerability to PTSD following traumatic experiences.
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ISSN:0007-1250
1472-1465
1472-1465
DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.116.197640