Association Between Self-reported Childhood Sexual Abuse and Adverse Psychosocial Outcomes
Archives of General PsychiatryPublished 1 February 2002
Elliot C. Nelson, Andrew C. Heath, Pamela A. F. Madden, M. Lynne Cooper, Stephen H. Dinwiddie, Kathleen K. Bucholz
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Self-reported CSA was associated with increased risk for adverse outcomes, controlling for family background, and Discordant pair analysis seems to provide an effective means of controlling forfamily background risk factors.
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Self-reported CSA was associated with increased risk for adverse outcomes, controlling for family background. Family background risk factors also were associated with adverse outcome risk. Discordant pair analysis seems to provide an effective means of controlling for family background risk factors.
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