Family functioning, trauma exposure and PTSD: A cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Only a minority of trauma-exposed individuals go on to develop post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Previous studies in high income countries suggest that maladaptive family functioning adversities (MFFA) in childhood may partially explain individual variation in vulnerability to PTSD following trauma. We test in a lower middle-income setting (Sri Lanka) whether: (1) MFFA is associated with trauma exposure; (2) MFFA moderates the association between exposure to trauma and later (a) PTSD (b) other psychiatric diagnoses; and (3) any association between MFFA and PTSD is explained by experiences of interpersonal violence, cumulative trauma exposure or comorbid psychopathology.

Methods

We conducted a population study of 3995 twins and 2019 singletons residing in Colom

SUBMITTER: Dorrington S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6362264 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature