Unit:
Specialty Strategies in Development of Adolescents' HealthLibrary of the School of Health Sciences
Author:
Papatoukaki Aikaterini
Supervisors info:
Αρτεμισία Τσίτσικα, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ, Επιβλέπουσα
Φλώρα Μπακοπούλου, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Χάιδω Σπηλιοπούλου, Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Αλληλεπίδραση της σεξουαλικής κακοποίησης με άλλες μορφές κακοποίησης στην παθογένεση της διαταραχής μετατραυματικού stress σε παιδιά, εφήβους και νεαρούς ενήλικες: Συστηματική ανασκόπηση και μετα-ανάλυση
Translated title:
Interaction of sexual abuse and other type of abuse and post traymatic stress disorder in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood: Systematic review and meta-analysis
Summary:
Introduction: Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) is strongly associated with significant physical and mental health disorders developing during the childhood, adolescence and adulthood. The researches have also confirmed the important correlations between the child sexual trauma and the development of mental health disorders such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Objectives: The present systematic review and meta-analysis is focused on the caused effects of the existence of CSA in developing of PTSD Symptoms, enlighten the role of the specific confounder such as the existence of other types of abuse.
Participants and setting: Participants were sexually and non-sexually abused, adolescents and young adults up to 21 years of age, boys and girls children, with or without ptsd diagnosis. Settings of the eligible studies were college, community, hospital and non-mental health facilities.
Methods: Eligible studies were prospective and retrospective (case-control, cohort, cross-sectional), with the association between CSA and PTSD. Only the studies written in English were considered as eligible. Random-effects (DerSimonian-Laird) models were used for the pooling of studies. Results were reported as pooled odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs)
Results: Twenty-one studies were identified. Comparing to other types of abuse in reference category with sexual abuse, experiences of sexual maltreatment is a strong associating factor for the development of PTSD.
Conclusion: The CSA synthesizes an important social problem that concerns the scientists, as the phenomenon has extremely negative effects on physical and mental health of children and adolescents.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Child sexual abuse, Adolescence, adults, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Meta-analysis
