Krommidas George Author

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Childhood Trauma and Adult Distress Symptoms

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Mary Gouva, Mary Gouva, Georgios Hadjigeorgiou, Krommidas George, Bonotis Konstantinos

Childhood trauma is highly prevalent and consist a major public health problem with severe adverse physical and mental effects later in life. The purpose of the study was to investigate the childhood trauma effects on adult psychopathology, as expressed through their distress symptoms. One thousand two hundred ninety-three (1293), healthy individuals (343 men and 894 women) were enrolled in the study. They were divided into two groups on the basis of their responses of experienced negative life events (at least one childhood traumatic event vs. no event) and filled out the SCL-90 questionnaire. Accidents (18%), fears (16%), loss of house and pets (15%), educational queries and doubts (13%) and parental divorce (11%), were the most frequent childhood adversit... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2324-8947.1000160

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