Sexual Trauma

07/01/2020 - "In a secondary analysis, we compared life structures for the sexual-trauma group and for individuals with chronic depression but no sexual-trauma history (n = 30) and matched control participants (n = 56), which revealed significantly greater negative redundancy in the depressed group. "
01/01/2018 - "For the purpose of the current study, data from women who had been either sexually abused by a familiar perpetrator (n = 30) or had no history of sexual trauma (n = 29) were included. "
01/01/2023 - "We included data from survivors of CSA by a known perpetrator (n = 35) and women with no sexual trauma (n = 30). "

11/01/2010 - "This group intervention that addressed coping with HIV and sexual trauma was effective in reducing alcohol and cocaine use, with effects sustained at 12-month follow-up. "

03/01/2016 - "The results of this study demonstrated that women with a history of sexual trauma, in contrast, displayed a blunted cortisol response to an intimacy induction task. "
03/01/2016 - "Women with a history of sexual trauma exhibited a blunted cortisol response and greater anxious mood in reaction to the intimacy induction task compared to controls. "
05/01/2010 - "This effect was driven mainly by patients reporting sexual trauma who showed a trend toward higher cortisol levels as compared to patients without a sexual trauma report. "
11/01/2016 - "The aim of this study was to investigate whether cortisol and oxidative stress levels and DNA damage differ between individuals who developed PTSD or not following a sexual trauma. "
03/01/2016 - "The current study aimed to assess hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis functioning (i.e., cortisol reactivity) prior to (-5min), during (+15, +30, +45min), and following (+60min) an experimental manipulation of emotional closeness in a sample of women survivors of sexual trauma with varying levels of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology versus controls. "

06/23/2022 - "In this sense, physical traumas are more associated with alcohol use, while emotional and sexual traumas favor use of multiple drugs, especially crack cocaine. "
10/01/2002 - "This descriptive study examined how Black women who smoke crack cocaine spoke about their experiences of sexual trauma, drug use, and the implications of these experiences for their lives. "
07/01/2001 - "The purpose of this study was to explore the prevalence of social isolation and its relationship to sexual trauma in a sample of Black women who smoke crack cocaine. "
07/01/1994 - "African-American women who smoke crack cocaine: sexual trauma and the mother-daughter relationship."
03/01/2000 - "The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the relationship among sexual trauma, severity of substance use, and treatment success for African American women who smoke crack cocaine. "

10/01/2002 - "Self-perceived effects of sexual trauma among women who smoke crack."
10/01/2002 - "This descriptive study examined how Black women who smoke crack cocaine spoke about their experiences of sexual trauma, drug use, and the implications of these experiences for their lives. "
07/01/2001 - "The purpose of this study was to explore the prevalence of social isolation and its relationship to sexual trauma in a sample of Black women who smoke crack cocaine. "
07/01/1994 - "African-American women who smoke crack cocaine: sexual trauma and the mother-daughter relationship."
03/01/2000 - "The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the relationship among sexual trauma, severity of substance use, and treatment success for African American women who smoke crack cocaine. "

09/01/2007 - "Genotype and childhood sexual trauma moderate neurocognitive performance: a possible role for brain-derived neurotrophic factor and apolipoprotein E variants."
06/01/2015 - "The aim of this study was to investigate whether BDNF, cortisol and adrenocorticotropine (ACTH) levels differ between individuals who developed PTSD or not following a sexual trauma. "

12/01/2020 - "Comorbid chronic medical conditions, adverse childhood events other than sexual trauma, and current stress levels were not associated with IL-6 or hsCRP levels. "
12/01/2017 - "To investigate whether serum levels of cortisol, interleukin-6 and interleukin-10 differed between children with or without a sexual trauma. Methods: This descriptive study was conducted in the Department of Child Protective Service (CPS), Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital, Bursa, Turkey, between May 2016 and July 2016. "

12/07/2020 - "The purpose of the THRIVE (Trauma and HIV Risk: Investigating Stress and the Immune Disruption of the Vaginal Environment) Study is to examine the impact of sexual trauma due to sexual violence on HIV susceptibility through dysregulation of soluble inflammatory and anti-inflammatory and anti-HIV biomarkers in the female genital tract and dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis among adolescent girls and adult women. "
01/01/2022 - "We investigated the impact and timing of sexual trauma, a specific type of interpersonal violence, experienced during key developmental windows of childhood, adolescence, or adulthood on adult health outcomes and associated biomarkers, including circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA levels and extracellular vesicles (EVs), in a predominantly Black cohort of women (N = 101). "
01/01/2022 - "Significant changes in both biomarkers examined, circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA levels and EV proteome, were specific to developmental timing of sexual trauma. "

01/01/2023 - "Mental contamination (MC)-a sense of dirtiness experienced without contacting an identifiable pollutant-is a distressing and enduring experience among many survivors of sexual trauma. "
01/01/2023 - "The goal of the present study was to examine whether 1) OCD symptoms prospectively predicted daily symptoms of PTSD, and 2) OCD and PTSD symptoms prospectively predicted daily experiences of sexual trauma-related mental contamination (i.e., dirtiness in the absence of a physical pollutant). "

06/22/2023 - "Our study is the first to show associations between childhood sexual trauma and total ghrelin levels in adults in a large, community-based sample. "

01/01/2020 - "There was no evidence of greater dropout from therapies delivered in a group format; from studies that recruited participants from clinical services rather than via advertisements; that included only military personnel/veterans; that were limited to participants traumatized by sexual traumas; that included a higher proportion of female participants; or from studies with a lower proportion of participants who were university educated. "
11/01/2023 - "Work package 5 analysis demonstrated that people with recorded sexual assault had higher levels of baseline psychological distress and received more therapy but their average change scores at end point were similar to those without sexual trauma. "
02/01/2021 - "Childhood Sexual Trauma and Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review."
01/01/2020 - "There are few models of sex therapy designed specifically for working with relationships in which one or more partners have a history of sexual trauma. "
01/01/2020 - "Facilitating Erotic Connection: The Relationship Shared Values Primer (RSVP) to Sex and Relationship Therapy in the Context of Sexual Trauma History."

12/01/2018 - "Women with a history of sexual trauma desired clear communication about their history between prenatal care providers and the labor and delivery team. "
11/01/2020 - "This qualitative study analyzed semi-structured interviews about the prenatal care and birth experience of nine women with opioid use disorder as a sub-analysis of a qualitative study of women with a history of sexual trauma. "
06/01/2014 - "The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that physicians elicit a sexual abuse and rape trauma history for every patient, yet, in practice, physicians still may struggle to understand how best to obtain this history and what clinical obligations arise when a physician inquires and a woman discloses a remote history of childhood or adult sexual trauma during the course of her prenatal care. "

01/01/2020 - "The findings of this study suggest that the right tapetum may serve as a potential neural marker of early sexual trauma in patients with PD and contribute to personal vulnerability and poorer treatment outcome after pharmacotherapy."

07/16/2014 - "Although a number of predictors for PTSD following childbirth have been identified (e.g., history of sexual trauma, emergency caesarean section, low social support), only very few studies have tested predictors derived from current theoretical models of the disorder. "

03/01/2009 - "The phenomenon of autohypnosis in the context of early childhood sexual trauma and disordered attachment is discussed, as is the meaning of alters or alternate personalities. "
07/01/2004 - "Brief hypnotherapy of severe depression linked to sexual trauma: a case study."
10/01/1995 - "Hypnosis in the treatment of sexual trauma: a master class commentary."
01/01/1990 - "As a result of these abuses, Woolf suffered the special signs and symptoms of long-standing childhood psychic trauma--sexual numbing, emotional distancing, self-hypnosis, splitting, and dissociation. "