@article{ref1,
title="Prevalence of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and concurrent traumatic life events in a general medical population",
journal="Mayo Clinic proceedings",
year="1990",
author="Greenwood, C. L. and Tangalos, E. G. and Maruta, T.",
volume="65",
number="8",
pages="1067-1071",
abstract="A normative sample of 100 patients (59 women and 41 men) from the city of Rochester, Minnesota, and the surrounding rural area who came to the Mayo Clinic for a general medical examination were interviewed in a semistructured format by using a list of questions about childhood life events. Sexual abuse was reported by 16.9% of women and 0% of men, frequencies that are near the lower end of the spectrum of reported values from recent studies. Physical abuse was reported by 5% of the entire group. No association was observed between the two types of abuse. Physical abuse was associated with a significant degree of traumatic life events, but sexual abuse was not. Use of face-to-face interviewing, matched sex and ethnicity of the interviewer, and a high compliance rate substantially increase the probability that the female respondents in the current study were both representative and reliable.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0025-6196",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}