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Published on: November 21, 2013
Child abuse and aggressiveness in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia in Lebanon
Feten Fekih-Romdhane1,2, Cedric Abboud3, Mikhael Kossaify3
1Department of Psychiatry "Ibn Omrane", The Tunisian Center of Early Intervention in Psychosis, Razi Hospital, Manouba, Tunisia.
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.
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