Associations Between Forced Intercourse and Subsequent Depression Among Women in the U.S. General Population.

ABSTRACT: Forced intercourse is a high prevalence experience among US women, with high potential to produce subsequent major depressive episodes (MDE). However, the extent to which prior risk factors are associated with the timing of both sexual assault experiences and subsequent MDE onset is not known. The aim of this study was to document the associations between childhood depression, subsequent forced intercourse, and later MDE. We used retrospective information on childhood depression, forced intercourse, and MDE after forced intercourse from female respondents in the nationally representative 2017 US Panel Study of Income Dynamics-Transition to Adulthood Supplement (PSID-TAS, N = 1298, response rate: 87%). Multivariable logistic regression estimated these associations, controlling for age, race

SUBMITTER: Bruffaerts R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10872405 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature