Objective:
@EN This study investigated the correlations between childhood sexual abuse and the
severity of psychopathology symptoms in adulthood and the usefulness of adult psychiatric
symptoms, diagnoses, and medications as factors in the identification of patients who have
been sexually abused in childhood.
@ES Method:
@EN The subjects of this study were 21 childhood sexually abused female inpatients and 22
nonabused female inpatients(psychiatric control group). All subjects were interviewed and
completed self report instruments that focused on childhood sexual history of trauma, and
current general psychiatric symptoms, dissociative symptoms.
@ES Results:
@EN Sexually abused group showed significantly higher rates of divorce than psychiatric
control group. Reltive to psychiatric control group, sexually abused group have more
hospitalization, higher proportion of more suicidal symptoms and more often major
pharmacological treatment. Sexually abused group manifested significantly higher levels of
dissociative symptoms and general psychiatric symptoms, including interpersonal sensitivity,
psychoticism, obsessive compulsive and global severity index.
@ES Conclusions:
@EN Findings suggest that childhood sexual abuse is associated with adult psychiatric
symptoms, especially dissociative symptoms and works as etiology of psychopathology of
boderline personality disorder.
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