Mood disorders, childhood maltreatment, and medical morbidity in US adults: An observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Mood disorders, child maltreatment, and medical morbidity are associated with enormous public health burden and individual suffering. The effect of mood disorders on medical morbidity, accounting for child maltreatment, has not been studied prospectively in a large, representative sample of community-dwelling US adults. This study tested the effects of mood disorders and child maltreatment on medical morbidity, and variation by subtypes.

Methods

Participants were noninstitutionalized US adults in the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (N = 43,093 wave 1, N = 34,653 wave 2). Mood disorders included lifetime DSM-IV episodes of depression, dysthymia, mania, or hypomania. Child maltreatment was defined as sexual, physical, or emotional abus

SUBMITTER: Stapp EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7855245 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature