Childhood Abuse and Adulthood IPV, Depression, and High-Risk Drinking in Latinas.
Brian E McCabe, Betty S Lai, Rosa M Gonzalez-Guarda and 1 others
PMID 30346229WHAT IT FOUND
Among Latina women, any childhood abuse was linked to more likely reporting adult intimate partner violence, depression, and high-risk drinking.
More abuse types were linked to more likely reporting. This was not a cause-and-effect test.
Key findings
01Women who reported any childhood abuse were more likely to report intimate partner violence, depression, and high-risk drinking in adulthood.
02A greater number of childhood abuse types was associated with more likely reporting intimate partner violence, depression, and high-risk drinking.
03Specific abuse types showed different links: emotional abuse was linked to depression, physical abuse to high-risk drinking, and sexual abuse to depression and high-risk drinking, while no specific type was significantly linked to intimate partner violence.
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What it does not show
The study was cross-sectional, so it cannot show that childhood abuse caused intimate partner violence, depression, or high-risk drinking. Childhood abuse was recalled by adults, and all outcomes were self-report, so recall and reporting bias are possible. The sample was not a random community sample, so the findings may not apply to all Latina women. The intimate partner violence measure covered only the current relationship, so past or other relationships were not included. Depression was identified only by a CES-D cutoff, with no clinical interview to confirm diagnosis.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that childhood abuse causes adult intimate partner violence, depression, or high-risk drinking. This was a cross-sectional self-report study of a non-random sample, so it cannot show cause and recall bias is possible.