SynthesisEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2024
Sexual abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Mapping the global prevalence and socioecological drivers of child sexual abuse: a systematic review and synthesis.BMJ paediatrics open · 2026Pooled it
- Increased Prevalence of Childhood Complex Trauma in Comorbid Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Substance Use Disorders Compared to Either Disorder Alone: A Systematic Review.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Sequelae of child maltreatment: Umbrella synthesis of 148 meta-analyses on the mental health correlates.JCPP advances · 2026Article
- Improving Teacher Education to Adequately Deal with Child Sexual Abuse - an Exploratory Study.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2026Article
- Psychological and behavioral mechanisms linking childhood trauma profiles to voice-related distress in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: latent class, mediation, and conditional process analyses.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Different early-life adversity paradigms have disparate effects on maternal care, neuronal activation, and social behavior in developing mice.Neurobiology of stress · 2026Article
- Mixed Response Patterns to a Virtual Reality Intervention targeting Trauma-related Shame in Adolescents after Sexual Abuse: A Single-Case Experimental Design.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis attenuation following child sexual abuse distinguishes posttraumatic stress trajectories from late adolescence to midlife.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2026Article
- [Psychometric properties of a direct violence scale and its behavioral mediation].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2026Observational
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Residential Care After an Earthquake: A Follow-Up Study.Noro psikiyatri arsivi · 2026Article
- Clinical profiles and hospitalization patterns among abused children referred by Child Guidance Centers in Japan.Discover mental health · 2025Article
- Discriminating childhood traumatic experiences by molecular profiles: the case of neglect and sexual abuse.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Trauma and physical pain: an urban-rural comparison of sexually abused girls in Burundi.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- "I'd Do Things to You That You Can't Even Imagine, but You'd Love Them …": Situating #MeToo Among Spanish Youth.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Gender-differentiated pathways from childhood trauma to self-injury: rumination as a mediator in depressed adolescents.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Mechanisms of childhood trauma: an integrative review of a multimodal, transdiagnostic pathway.Neurobiology of stress · 2025Review
- The Relationship Between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Executive Function for Those in Recovery from Opioid Use Disorder: A Brief Report of a Pilot Study.Journal of family violence · 2025Article
- Decoding vital variables in predicting different phases of suicide among young adults with childhood sexual abuse: a machine learning approach.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- The relationship between hair cortisol and trauma sequelae in motor vehicle crash survivors: the role of childhood trauma experiences.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Sexual abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder in childhood adolescence and young adulthood.Journal of family & child health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Child sexual abuse (CSA) has been associated with mental health disorders throughout life during childhood, adolescence and adulthood; one of the most prevalent mental health conditions after CSA is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The present systematic review and meta-analysis aims to examine the association between CSA and PTSD in children and adolescents, evaluating also the role of potential effect modifiers, such as gender and geographic region. Participants were sexually abused (vs. CSA-free) children, adolescents and young adults, up to 21 years of age, with or without a PTSD diagnosis. Settings of eligible studies spanned school, college, university, community, hospital and non-hospital mental health facilities. Eligible studies were sought in PUBMED, ΕΜΒΑSE, PSYCINFO and GOOGLE SCHOLAR databases; end-of-search was set at August 31, 2020. Random-effects (DerSimonian-Laird) models were used for the pooling of studies. Results were reported as pooled odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs). Twenty-eight studies were identified, including a total cohort of 28,693 subjects. CSA was strongly associated with PTSD, at a similar extent in boys (pooled OR = 2.86, 95% CI 2.09-3.91) and girls (pooled OR = 2.38, 95% CI 1.76-3.23); meta-regression with gender confirmed the non-significant effect of gender. The association was present in all examined geographic regions. CSA is strongly associated with PTSD in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, irrespectively of gender. Future studies should opt for thorough assessment of confounders and examine regions with paucity of studies, such as East Asia and Latin America.
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