Trauma exposure, contextual stressors, and PTSD symptoms: patterns in racially and ethnically diverse, low-income postpartum women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities persist in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which are partly attributed to minoritized women being trauma-exposed, while also contending with harmful contextual stressors. However, few have used analytic strategies that capture the interplay of these experiences and their relation to PTSD. The current study used a person-centered statistical approach to examine heterogeneity in trauma and contextual stress exposure, and their associations with PTSD and underlying symptom dimensions, in a diverse sample of low-income postpartum women.

Methods

Using a community-based sample of Black, Hispanic/Latina, and White postpartum women recruited from five U.S. regions (n = 1577), a latent class analysis generated prof

SUBMITTER: Kofman YB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11779552 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature