Objectives:
@EN The purpose of this study is to investigate the psychiatric problems of rape victims.
@ES Methods:
@EN The author observed the psychiatric symptoms of the 10 women patients who visited
psychiatric clinics immediately after rape trauma, and made a related survey of 61 other 61
female outpatients in order to compare psychiatric symptoms of those of them who reported
the history of rape trauma and those of the others who did not have such history.
@ES Results:
@EN Results are given as follows:
1) The most frequent psychiatric diagnosis of the victims of rather recent days' rape was
posttraumatic stress disorder(4/10), followed by depression(2/10) and Schizoaffective disorder
(2/10). The most frequent perpetrator was unknown person(8/10).
2) 49.2% of the other 61 outpatients of psychiatric clinic reported the history of abuse,
including 26.2% and 36.1% of them reporting sexual abuse and physical abuse, respectively.
3) Sexual dysfunction was reported in 58.3% of the rape victims, who generally showed a
tendency toward the high level of anxiety, hostility and paranoid symptoms.
4) The high scored dissociation was observed in rape victims but not in non-abuse group.
@ES Conclusion:
@EN The rape trauma appears to be responsible for some psychiatric symptoms, or at least
to be a precipitating factor of psychiatric disorders. The author also confirmed that aftermath
of the rape trauma can continue rather perennially, for years after trauma or even for life
long.
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