title: Psychopathology in substance abusing women reporting childhood sexual abuse.
abstract: This study compared MMPI-2 profiles and evaluated the ability of the MMPI-2 and its two new post-traumatic stress scales (PK and PS) to discriminate women in outpatient substance abuse treatment reporting positive (n = 24) and negative (n = 69) child sexual abuse histories. T-tests revealed significantly higher mean scores for the sexual abuse group for the following scales: F, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8. A discriminant analysis yielded a linear function of L, F, 3, 5, 8, and PK that correctly categorized 75% with positive histories and 77% with negative histories. The optimal cutoff PK score was 17, which correctly classified 75% and 46% of those reporting positive and negative abuse histories, respectively. These findings support early identification of abuse survivors among substance abusing women and suggests that the MMPI-2 may be useful in patient-treatment matching.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298-0109, USA.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Knisely
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Barker
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Ingersoll
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Dawson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011247:Pregnancy; D011594:Psychometrics; D011599:Psychopathology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*