Authors
Jutta Lindert, Ondine S von Ehrenstein, Rachel Grashow, Gilad Gal, Elmar Braehler, Marc G Weisskopf
Publication date
2014/4
Source
International journal of public health
Volume
59
Pages
359-372
Publisher
Springer Basel
Description
Objectives
To determine whether depression and anxiety in adulthood are associated with abuse exposure in childhood.
Methods
A search of PUBMED, EMBASE and PSYCHINFO databases (2002–2012) was supplemented by hand searches of bibliographies of articles and reviews. We included studies contrasting abuse exposure vs. no-abuse exposure before age 16 years to depression and anxiety after age 16 years. Data on sample and exposure and outcome instruments, covariates and odds ratios (ORs) with the respective 95 % confidence intervals (CI) were extracted. Combined ORs and 95 % CI were calculated using random effects models. Heterogeneity was quantified using the I 2 test.
Results
Inclusion criteria were met by 19 studies with 115,579 study participants, for assessing depression …
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