Reliability of Reports of Violent Victimization and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Men and Women With Serious Mental Illness |
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| Authors: | Lisa A Goodman Kim M Thompson Kevin Weinfurt Susan Corl Pat Acker Kim T Mueser Stanley D Rosenberg |
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| Institution: | (1) Counseling Psychology Program, School of Education, Boston College, USA;(2) Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University, USA;(3) Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD;(4) Dartmouth Medical School and New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Hanover, NH |
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| Abstract: | Although violent victimization is highly prevalent among men and women with serious mental illness (SMI; e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder), future research in this area may be impeded by controversy concerning the ability of individuals with SMI to report traumatic events reliably. This article presents the results of a study exploring the temporal consistency of reports of childhood sexual abuse, adult sexual abuse, and adult physical abuse, as well as current symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among 50 people with SMI. Results show that trauma history and PTSD assessments can, for the most part, yield reliable information essential to further research in this area. The study also demonstrates the importance of using a variety of statistical methods to assess the reliability of self-reports of trauma history. |
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| Keywords: | reliability measures trauma exposure serious mental illness schizophrenia |
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