Adolescent physical abuse : risk for adolescent psychiatric disorders

OBJECTIVE: The present study examined whether physical abuse functions as an additional risk factor for adolescent psychopathology after other important known risk factors are controlled for.

METHOD: The authors recruited 99 adolescents aged 12 to 18 years directly from the New York State Department of Social Services after official documentation of physical abuse. The abused adolescents were compared to 99 nonabused adolescents matched for age, gender, race, and community income. Diagnostic interviews and measures of selected risk factors for psychopathology were administered to the adolescents and their parents and then entered into a multiple logistic regression model testing the added risk contributed by physical abuse to adolescent psychopathology.

RESULTS: Physical abuse added significantly to other risk factors in accounting for lifetime diagnoses of major depression, dysthymia, conduct disorder, drug abuse, and cigarette smoking. Physical abuse also contributed significantly to prediction of current adolescent unipolar depressive disorders, disruptive disorders, and cigarette smoking.

CONCLUSIONS: Since physically abused adolescents are at greater risk for the development of psychiatric disorders, recognition of adolescent abuse and the provision of psychiatric and substance abuse services may reduce morbidity.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Am J Psychiatry. 1999 Sep;156(9):1473. - PMID 10484973

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1998

Erschienen:

1998

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:155

Enthalten in:

The American journal of psychiatry - 155(1998), 7 vom: 29. Juli, Seite 954-9

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kaplan, S J [VerfasserIn]
Pelcovitz, D [VerfasserIn]
Salzinger, S [VerfasserIn]
Weiner, M [VerfasserIn]
Mandel, F S [VerfasserIn]
Lesser, M L [VerfasserIn]
Labruna, V E [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Adolescents
Age Factors
Americas
Biology
Child Abuse
Comparative Study
Correlation Studies
Crime
Demographic Factors
Developed Countries
Diseases
Journal Article
Longterm Effects
Mental Disorders
New York
North America
Northern America
Population
Population Characteristics
Population Dynamics
Research Methodology
Research Report
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Risk Factors
Social Problems
Statistical Studies
Studies
Substance Addiction
Time Factors
United States
Youth

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 21.07.1998

Date Revised 10.03.2022

published: Print

CommentIn: Am J Psychiatry. 1999 Sep;156(9):1473. - PMID 10484973

Citation Status MEDLINE

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM095996850