Citation

Lipsky S, Kernic MA, Qiu Q, Hasin DS. Violence Against Women 2016; 22(9): 1055-1074.

Affiliation

Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801215617553

PMID

26620827

Abstract

This study sought to examine specific types of potentially traumatic experiences as predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the moderating effect of race/ethnicity and major depressive disorder (MDD) among non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic U.S. women. The study sample was drawn from two waves of the National Epidemiologic Surveys of Alcohol and Related Conditions. Sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and childhood trauma were the strongest predictors of PTSD compared with the reference group (indirect/witnessed trauma). Similar patterns were revealed across racial/ethnic groups, although the estimates were most robust among White women.

FINDINGS also suggest that MDD moderates the effect of traumatic experiences on PTSD.

Language: en