Citation

Schumacher AM, Jaramillo D, Uribe T, De Pheils PB, Holzemer W, Taylor D, Tiwari A, Canaval GE, Flores ME, Belknap RA, Humphreys JC. Health Care Women Int. 2010; 31(10): 946-961.

Affiliation

Department of Community Health Systems, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/07399332.2010.503290

PMID

20835943

Abstract

Our purpose in this study was to examine the relationship between interpersonal violence and background traumas and symptom distress in a community sample of Colombian women (N = 217). We utilized the Life Stressor Checklist-Revised (LSC-R) to measure lifetime interpersonal violence (IPV) and background trauma exposure and the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) to measure current symptom distress. Although both exposures were common in this sample, IPV was strongly correlated with current symptom distress; background traumas made no unique contribution to the variance in current symptom distress. Based on our findings, it is suggested that interpersonal events may be particularly distressing.

Language: en