Associations between PTSD symptoms and other psychiatric symptoms among college students exposed to childhood sexual abuse: a network analysis

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Background: Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is one of the prevalent forms of trauma experienced during childhood and adolescence. Previous research underscores its associations with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and psychosis. Objective: This study examined symptom connections between depression, anxiety, PTSD, and psychosis while simultaneously investigating whether these connections differed by gender among CSA survivors. Methods: A large-scale, cross-sectional study among 96,218 college students was conducted in China. Participants’ CSA was measured by the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF). Participants’ PTSD, psychosis, depression, and anxiety were measured by the Trauma Screening Questionnaire (TSQ), the Psychosis Screener (PS), the nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), and the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7), respectively. Network analysis was used to explore the potential associations between these symptoms and to compare the sex differences in the symptoms model. Results: Among participants who suffered from CSA, females were more likely from left-behind households, while males were more likely from households with a high annual income (P

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Jin, Y., Xu, S., Wang, Y., Li, H., Wang, X., Sun, X., & Wang, Y. (2022). Associations between PTSD symptoms and other psychiatric symptoms among college students exposed to childhood sexual abuse: a network analysis. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2022.2141508

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