Evaluation of Psychological Symptoms in Terms of Childhood Traumas, Spirituality, and Conflict Tactics in Sheltered Battered Women.
Elif Güzide Emirza, Nermin Gürhan
PMID 39417549WHAT IT FOUND
Sheltered women in Türkiye reported high psychological distress; 64.1% had a psychiatric diagnosis and 37.5% had attempted suicide.
Childhood abuse, witnessed parental violence and lower spiritual well-being were linked to more distress. This did not test cause and effect.
Key findings
01Among 92 women staying in shelters, 64.1% had a diagnosed psychiatric disorder and 37.5% had attempted suicide.
02The mean total Brief Symptom Inventory score was 118.01, the mean total Spiritual Well-Being Scale score was 114.98, and the mean total Childhood Abuse Experiences Scale Short Form score was 63.38.
03Depression scores were significantly associated in the same direction with father's violence against mother, father's violence against self, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and total childhood abuse experiences, and in the opposite direction with transcendence, spiritual sum, and emotional neglect.
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What it does not show
There was no comparison group of women who were not in shelters or had not experienced violence. The sample was a convenience sample of 92 women from shelters in two provinces in Türkiye, so it may not represent all sheltered women. Only women who had stayed in a shelter for at least 15 days were included. Women with severe mental retardation, psychotic symptoms, impaired judgment of reality, lack of insight due to psychiatric disorder, or impaired cognitive functioning were excluded. Some eligible women were not interviewed because they were foreign nationals, working, absent, hearing and speech impaired, refused, or had left. Because the study was descriptive and had no control group, it cannot show that any factor caused mental distress or that spirituality reduced symptoms.
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Do not read the spiritual well-being findings as proof that spirituality reduces mental symptoms. The study was descriptive, used a convenience sample, and had no comparison group, so it can show association but not cause and effect.