Citation

Swett C, Surrey J, Cohen C. Am. J. Psychiatry 1990; 147(5): 632-636.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Mass.

Comment In:

Am J Psychiatry 1991;148(3):399-400.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2327492

Abstract

Of 125 consecutive male patients at an adult psychiatric outpatient clinic, 48% reported histories of sexual abuse and/or physical abuse. The mean scores on the global severity index of the SCL-90-R at the first visit were significantly higher for those who reported histories of abuse than for those who had no such history. Childhood abuse also was associated with high levels of psychiatric symptoms in these men.

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