Child Abuse and Chronic Pain in a Community Survey of Women

Autor/inn/en	Walsh, Christine A.; Jamieson, Ellen; MacMillan, Harriet; Boyle, Michael
Titel	Child Abuse and Chronic Pain in a Community Survey of Women
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 22 (2007) 12, S.1536-1554 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260507306484
Schlagwörter	Substance Abuse; Sexual Abuse; Child Abuse; Low Income; Pain; Females; Mental Disorders; Public Health; Mental Health; Community Surveys; Chronic Illness; Correlation; Educational Attainment; Age Differences; Anxiety; Depression (Psychology); Physical Health; Adults; Rape; Foreign Countries; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Sexueller Missbrauch; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Niedriglohn; Schmerz; Weibliches Geschlecht; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Gesundheitswesen; Psychohygiene; Chronic disease; Chronische Krankheit; Korrelation; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Angst; Gesundheitszustand; Sexuelle Gewalt; Vergewaltigung; Ausland; Kanada
Abstract	This study examined the relationship between a self-reported history of child physical and sexual abuse and chronic pain among women (N = 3381) in a provincewide community sample. Chronic pain was significantly associated with physical abuse, education, and age of the respondents and was unrelated to child sexual abuse alone or in combination with physical abuse, mental disorder (anxiety, depression, or substance abuse), or low income. Number of health problems and mental health disorders did not mediate the relationship between physical abuse and chronic pain. Despite considerable evidence from the clinical literature linking exposure to child maltreatment and chronic pain in adulthood, this may well be the first population-based study to investigate this relationship for child physical and sexual abuse independently. The significant association between childhood history of physical abuse and pain in adulthood calls for a greater awareness of the potential for chronic pain problems associated with this type of maltreatment. Further research is needed to understand the mechanism for this complex relationship. (Contains 2 tables.) [This research was supported by the Wyeth Canada Inc. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Clinical Research Chair in Women's Mental Health and the CIHR Institutes of Gender and Health; Aging; Human Development, Child and Youth Health; Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction; and Population and Public Health.] (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10