S5. SPECIFICITY OF TRAUMA AND ATTENUATED POSITIVE SYMPTOMS IN A NON-HELP-SEEKING SAMPLE

Abstract

Background: Trauma has been consistently associated with psychosis risk; however, the specificity of childhood trauma to individual attenuated positive psychotic symptoms among non-help-seeking individuals has not yet been adequately explored, as only one study to date has examined this relationship among help-seeking individuals and focused only on violent vs. non-violent traumatic events, rather than specific types of traumas. Methods: We examined the relationship between childhood trauma (Childhood Trauma Questionnaire) with type of positive symptom, as measured by the Structural Interview for Psychosis-risk Syndromes (SIPS) among a sample of non-help-seeking undergraduates at a large, ethnically and socioeconomically diverse urban university (n= 130). Results: Simple linear regressions revealed that any childhood trauma was significantly associated with increased disorganized communication in young adulthood [β = .35, t(128) = 4.15, p