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Posttraumatic Stress and Somatization in Abused Women

Lotta Samelius

Gender and Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden, lotsa{at}imk.liu.se

Barbro Wijma

Gender and Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden

Gun Wingren

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden

Klaas Wijma

Gender and Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden

This study examines the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and somatization in abused women; 213 abused women were assessed for PTSD, somatization, health care contacts, and abuse-related variables. The main analyses in this exploratory study are based on the 91 respondents reporting either PTSD or somatization. We found no association between the occurrence of PTSD and somatization in abused women. Women with PTSD reported higher total magnitude of abuse and a larger number of perpetrators than women with somatization. Sexually abused women with PTSD more often described their experience as an act of abuse compared with sexually abused women with somatization. Results suggest that PTSD might not be a necessary mediator between abuse and somatization and that variables other than abuse magnitude are decisive for the development of somatization in abused women.

Key Words: abused women • somatization • posttraumatic stress

This version was published on March 1, 2009

Traumatology, Vol. 15, No. 1, 103-112 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1534765608326177
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