ReviewChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2016
Assessing childhood maltreatment on the population level in Germany: findings and methodological challenges.
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- Childhood Trauma in Spanish Women with Fibromyalgia and Depression.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Diabetes-related distress and psychological burden in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes - the role of child maltreatment, personality functioning, and epistemic trust: findings from a German clinical inpatient sample.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Burden, consequences and associate factors of childhood maltreatment in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Heliyon · 2024Article
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- Childhood sexual abuse is associated with higher total ghrelin serum levels in adulthood: results from a large, population-based study.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
- Childhood maltreatment and emotion regulation in everyday life: an experience sampling study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The impact of childhood maltreatment on aggression, criminal risk factors, and treatment trajectories in forensic psychiatric patients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Psychometric properties of the dissociative subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder scale: replication and extension in two German-speaking samples.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
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- Brain-wide versus genome-wide vulnerability biomarkers for severe mental illnesses.Human brain mapping · 2022Article
- Validation and standardization of the Childhood Trauma Screener (CTS) in the general population.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2022Article
- Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment Among Postpartum Women-Prevalence of Psychosocial Risk Factors for Child Welfare: An Independent Replication Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Sexual abuse and physical neglect in childhood are associated with affective theory of mind in adults with schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2021Article
- DNA Methylation in Healthy Older Adults With a History of Childhood Adversity-Findings From the Women 40+ Healthy Aging Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
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Abstract
Childhood maltreatment (CM) is both prevalent and consequential. Unfortunately little is known about the true prevalence of CM in the general population in Germany. The differences between findings from top down vs. bottom up approaches and the problem of the dark field of CM is discussed. Different assessment methods like trauma lists, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) and the Childhood Trauma Screener (CTS) are described and the respective findings about the prevalence of CM in the adult German general population are discussed. With the example of childhood sexual abuse (SA) the challenges of quantification of CM is shown up. For instance, even if all the prevalence findings were based on methodologically sound large-scale studies, it could only be assumed that the retrospectively investigated prevalence of SA in the German general population ranges between 1.0 and 12.6 % in different studies. These findings provide an insight into the complexity of the quantification of the true prevalence of CM on the population level. Hopefully it reminds the readers of handling prevalence rates of CM carefully and to dip into the methodology of the studies before citing the respective prevalence of CM.
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