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Childhood Physical Punishment as Risk Factor for Combat-Related PTSD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

E. Becirovic ,
R. Softic ,
M. Mirkovic Hajdukov  and
A. Becirovic
E. Becirovic*
Affiliation:
UKC Tuzla, Klinika za psihijatriju, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
R. Softic
Affiliation:
UKC Tuzla, Klinika za psihijatriju, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
M. Mirkovic Hajdukov
Affiliation:
UKC Tuzla, Klinika za psihijatriju, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A. Becirovic
Affiliation:
UKC Tuzla, Poliklinika za laboratorijsku dijagnostiku, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
*
* Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Risk and protective factors for PTSD can be grouped into pretraumatic, peritraumatic, and posttraumatic. Reported childhood abuse has predictive risk effects for PTSD than most other pretraumatic risk factors.

Objective

To examine childhood physical abuse history in war veterans.

Aims

To determine whether childhood physical abuse is risk factor for PTSD in war veterans.

Methods

Cross-sectional study of 205 war veterans tested by Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and sociobiographic Questionnaire (with data of childhood physical punishment).

Results

A significant difference in reported childhood physical punishment between war veterans with and without PTSD was found. Veterans with PTSD were identified as recipients of childhood physical punishment.

Conclusions

Childhood physical punishment has positive correlation with development of PTSD in war veterans.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
EV904
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S511 - S512
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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