The Relationship of Two Types of Trauma Exposure to Current Physical and Psychological Symptom Distress in a Community Sample of Colombian Women: Why Interpersonal Violence Deserves More Attention

Ashley Marie Schumacher Department of Community Health Systems, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

Diva Jaramillo Escuela de Enfermería, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Tulia Uribe Escuela de Enfermería, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Pilar Bernal De Pheils Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

William Holzemer Department of Community Health Systems, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

Diana Taylor Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

Agnes Tiwari School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Gladys Eugenia Canaval Escuela de Enfermería, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Colombia

Maria Eugenia Mendoza Flores National Institute of Perinatology, Mexico City, Mexico

Ruth Ann Belknap College of Nursing, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Janice Carrol Humphreys Family Health Care Nursing, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

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Abstract

Our purpose in this study was to examine the relationship between interpersonal violence and background traumas and symptom distress in a community sample of Colombian women (N = 217). We utilized the Life Stressor Checklist-Revised (LSC-R) to measure lifetime interpersonal violence (IPV) and background trauma exposure and the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) to measure current symptom distress. Although both exposures were common in this sample, IPV was strongly correlated with current symptom distress; background traumas made no unique contribution to the variance in current symptom distress. Based on our findings, it is suggested that interpersonal events may be particularly distressing.

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*p < .05.

*Coefficients are significant at p < .05.

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