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The relationship between childhood trauma and adulthood anxiety and depression among Tunisian university students
| العنوان: | The relationship between childhood trauma and adulthood anxiety and depression among Tunisian university students |
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| المؤلفون: | M. Turki, W. Hammemi, S. Ellouze, M. Barkallah, I. Mannoubi, N. Halouani, J. Aloulou |
| المصدر: | European Psychiatry, Vol 67, Pp S824-S824 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Psychiatry |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Psychiatry, RC435-571 |
| الوصف: | Introduction Traumatic childhood has increasingly high incidence rates and can be predictive of negative health outcomes. There is a large consensus indicating that childhood trauma is significantly involved in the development of mood disturbances in adulthood. Objectives The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between retrospectively recalled childhood trauma and adulthood anxiety and depression in a sample of undergraduate university students. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among a sample of 365 university students randomly selected from 8 universities in Sfax (Tunisia). Information about childhood maltreatment, depressive and anxiety symptoms were gathered through the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF), and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) respectively. To test the hypothesis, examining the relationship between anxiety, depression, and childhood trauma, we used Spearman’s correlation test. Multivariate logistic regression models were used as well. Results The mean age of our participants was 20.3 years. More females (68.2%) than males participated in the study. Our findings showed that the five childhood trauma subtypes (emotional abuse and neglect, physical abuse and neglect, sexual abuse) were significantly correlated with anxiety and depression symptoms severity (p |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0924-9338 1778-3585 |
| Relation: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S092493382401719X/type/journal_article; https://doaj.org/toc/0924-9338; https://doaj.org/toc/1778-3585 |
| DOI: | 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2024.1719 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/f78306bcde464aa78309a4cb31460bf1 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.f78306bcde464aa78309a4cb31460bf1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 09249338 17783585 |
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| DOI: | 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2024.1719 |