Onset of common mental disorders and suicidal behavior following women’s first exposure to gender based violence: a retrospective, population-based study

BMC Psychiatry

Derrick Silove⁵  David Forbes⁷  Meaghan O’Donnell⁷  Natacha Carragher¹  Tim Slade¹  Katherine L Mills¹  Alexander C McFarlane⁶  Richard Bryant⁴  Maree Teesson¹  Mark Creamer⁷  Zachary Steel³  Susan Rees² 

[1] National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;Centre for Population Mental Health Research, Level 1 Mental Health Centre, Liverpool Hospital, South West Sydney Local Health District, Sydney 2170, NSW, Australia;St John of God Health Care, Richmond Hospital, North Richmond 2754, NSW, Australia;School of Psychiatry and Ingham Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2170, NSW, Australia;School of Psychiatry and Ingham Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia;Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia;Department of Psychiatry, Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

关键词: Temporal sequencing;    Mental disorder;    Gender-based violence;   

Others  :  1092349
DOI  :  10.1186/s12888-014-0312-x

 received in 2013-11-12, accepted in 2014-10-22,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Women exposed to gender-based violence (GBV) experience a high rate of common mental disorders and suicidal behaviour (“mental disturbance”). Little is known however about the timing of onset of mental disturbance following first exposure to GBV amongst women with no prior mental disorder.

Methods

The analysis was undertaken on the Australian National Mental Health and Wellbeing Survey dataset (N = 8841). We assessed lifetime prevalence and first onset of common mental disorder and suicidal behaviour (mental disturbance) and exposure to GBV and its first occurrence based on the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Version 3 (WMH-CIDI 3.0). We used the Kaplan-Meier method to derive cumulative incident curves for first onset mental disturbance. The two derived subgroups were women who experienced GBV without prior mental disturbance; and women never exposed to GBV stratified to match the former group on age and socio-economic status.

Results

For women with no prior mental disorder, the cumulative incidence curves showed a high incidence of all mental disturbances following first GBV, compared to women without exposure to GBV (all log rank tests <0.0001). Nearly two fifths (37%) of any lifetime mental disturbance had onset in the year following first GBV in women exposed to abuse. For these women, over half (57%) of cases of lifetime PTSD had onset in the same time interval. For GBV exposed women, half of all cases of mental disturbance (54%) and two thirds of cases of PTSD (66.9%) had onset in the five years following first abuse. In contrast, there was a low prevalence of onset of mental disturbance in the comparable imputed time to event period for women never exposed to GBV (for any mental disturbance, 1% in the first year, 12% in five years; for PTSD 3% in the first year, 7% in five years).

Conclusions

Amongst women without prior mental disturbance, common mental disorders and suicidal behaviour have a high rate of onset in the one and five year intervals following exposure to GBV. There is a particularly high incidence of PTSD in the first year following GBV.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Rees et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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