[Connection between stressful live events with mental disorders].
OBJECTIVE
The aim of the paper is to study the differences between the mentally ill and a control group correlated with stressful live events and its connection with a sense of coherence.


METHODS
The group of 108 people, 49 psychiatric patients and 64 people without any mental disorders, were examined with the Hospital Anxiety-Depression Scale, Early Trauma Inventory, Social Readjustment Scale and the Sense of Coherence Scale.


RESULTS
Patients with mental disorders had a significantly higher occurrence of stressful psychosocial factors during the last year, and also they were exposed to traumatic events in childhood more frequently than the control group. The sense of coherence, as a measurement of resources in coping with stress, was significantly lower in the case of the psychiatric patients. Statistically significant dependence of anxiety and depression symptoms which were reported by patients with mental disorders with abuses which were experienced in childhood highly correlated with a sense of coherence in the group of psychiatric patients.


CONCLUSIONS
Psychiatric patients experienced stressful life events in childhood more frequently, which had to do with a sense of coherence as measure of 'resistance' resources to cope with stressful events.
Spila
Bozena
B
Z Katedry i Kliniki Psychiatrii AM w Lublinie.
Makara
Marta
M
Chuchra
Maria
M
Pawłowska
Beata
B
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D001294:Attitude to Health; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D012649:Self Concept; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000209:etiology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires