Childhood Sexual Abuse Severity and Disclosure Predict Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Biomarkers in Ethnic Minority Women

Dorie A. Glover PhD Semel Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USACorrespondence[email protected]

Tamra Burns Loeb PhD Semel Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

Jennifer Vargas Carmona PhD Semel Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

Andres Sciolla MD Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

Muyu Zhang MS Semel Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

Hector F. Myers PhD Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

Gail E. Wyatt PhD Semel Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Abstract

Objective: Adult posttraumatic stress symptoms and a biomarker index of current health risk in childhood sexual abuse (CSA) survivors were investigated in relation to CSA severity, disclosure, and other peri- and post-trauma factors. Method: A community sample of 94 African American and Latina female CSA survivors was assessed. Results: Severe CSA predicted posttraumatic stress symptoms overall, avoidance/numbing symptoms, and greater biomarker risk and was not mediated by post-trauma variables. Moderate CSA severity was mediated by post-trauma disclosure, predicted reexperiencing symptoms, but was unrelated to biomarker risk. No overall ethnic differences were found. Conclusion: Results suggest targets for interventions to improve the well-being of minority women CSA survivors

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This study was supported in part by National Institute of Mental Health Grant T32 MH17140.

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