title: [Childhood trauma and its relation to diagnoses and psychic complaints in patients of an psychosomatic university ambulance].
abstract: The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) was given to 1 439 patients of the outpatient- and consultation/liaison unit of the psychosomatic department of a university hospital. Self-reported emotional, sexual and physical abuse and emotional and physical neglect were related to the mental diagnoses and distress. Patients with childhood trauma (41,4%) reported higher levels of social anxiety, distress and physical complaints than patients without traumatizing childhood experiences. We found relations between emotional abuse and depression and personality disorders, physical abuse and somatoform disorders and sexual abuse and posttraumatic stress disorder. The observed relation between specific dimensions of childhood trauma and psychiatric diagnoses is consistent with reports on other clinical samples.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Klinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Mainz, Germany. subic-wrana@psychosomatik.klinik.uni-mainz.de
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Subic-Wrana
authors.forename: Regine
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tschan
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Michal
authors.forename: Rüdiger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zwerenz
authors.forename: Manfred
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beutel
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wiltink
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D038801:International Classification of Diseases; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires