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- Title
Child abuse and aggressiveness in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia in Lebanon.
- Authors
Fekih‐Romdhane, Feten; Abboud, Cedric; Kossaify, Mikhael; El Khoury, Nour; Sleiman, Yara Bou; Hachem, Dory; Haddad, Georges; Hallit, Souheil
- Abstract
Objectives: To identify individual and clinical risk factors of aggressiveness, including exposure to different forms of childhood trauma, in a sample of Lebanese patients with schizophrenia. Methods: A total of 131 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia participated in this cross‐sectional study. Results: Higher physical (Beta = 0.24, p < 0.001) and sexual (Beta = 0.29, p = 0.003) abuse, alcohol drinking (Beta = 1.46, p = 0.008), having a history of head trauma (Beta = 1.10, p = 0.041), and male gender (Beta = −1.59, p = 0.009) were significantly associated with higher mean aggression scores. Practical implications: Our investigation of the factors linked to aggressiveness in patients with schizophrenia complement those of earlier findings, showing that the relationship between interacting individual and environmental risk factors and later aggressiveness is quite complex, and needs further longitudinal and prospective studies.
- Subjects
MIDDLE East; LEBANON; RISK factors of aggression; SCHIZOPHRENIA; ADVERSE childhood experiences; STATISTICAL power analysis; STATISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL abuse; CHILD sexual abuse; ANALYSIS of variance; CROSS-sectional method; CHILD abuse; MULTIVARIATE analysis; REGRESSION analysis; RISK assessment; T-test (Statistics); PEARSON correlation (Statistics); CRONBACH'S alpha; ALCOHOL drinking; FACTOR analysis; CLASSIFICATION of mental disorders; DATA analysis software; LOGISTIC regression analysis; STATISTICAL models; PSYCHIATRIC hospitals
- Publication
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 2022, Vol 58, Issue 4, p2872
- ISSN
0031-5990
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ppc.13135