Child maltreatment as a social determinant of midlife health-related quality of life in women: do psychosocial factors explain this association?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We examined if child maltreatment (CM) is associated with worse health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in midlife women and if the association is mediated by psychosocial factors.

Methods

A total of 443 women were enrolled in the Pittsburgh site of the longitudinal Study of Women's Health Across the Nation-Mental Health Study. The analytic sample included 338 women who completed the SF-36 and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. Generalized linear regression was used to assess the association between CM and two HRQoL component scores. Structural nested mean models were used to evaluate the contribution of each psychosocial mediator (lifetime psychiatric history, depressive symptoms, sleep problems, very upsetting life events, low social support) to the association.

SUBMITTER: Lin HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7366611 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature