Childhood abuse impact on clinical and personality characters among anxiety associated depressive patients

Abstract

Objective To explore the childhood abuse impact on clinical and personality characters among anxiety associated depressive patients. Methods A case-control method was taken among 86 anxiety associated depression patients, 36 cases with childhood abuse and controlled with 50 cases without childhood abuse.HAMD, HAMA, CECA-Q, MMPI were used to evaluate the participants, and the scores of the results were compared between the two groups. Results For the HAMD, the group with CA were significantly higher than the group without CA(t=7.079, P<0.05). From the point of factor scores, there was not a significant difference between the two groups among the factors such as anxiety somatization, cognitive impairment, and hopelessness.From the point of view of the total scores of HAMA (t=3.108)and spiritual anxiety(t=4.037), somatic anxiety (t=2.742) the CA group was significantly higher than group without CA(P <0.05). In the patients with CA the psychoticism(P)(t=2.794) and neuroticism(N)(t=3.217) factors were significantly higher than patients without CA(P <0.05). MMPI evaluation results showed accept ance T points in addition to lie(L), calibration(K), male woman(Mf), light mania(Ma), the CA group were significantly higher than the group without CA(P <0.05). T points to compare two groups of MMPI additional factor scale, the adaptation to the society(A), emotional intelligence(EQ), decision-making ability(DE), CA group were lower than the group without CA, violence(VL), traffic accident(DR) and addiction(SA) with CA group was higher than the group without CA(P <0.05). The regression analysis showed that the emotional neglect score and HAMD scores were positively related in the relationship of the childhood abuse and depression.Y=3.729+ 0.887 X(P=0.000). Sexual abuse score and HAMD scores were related, regression analysis showed that the Y=9.799+ 0.655 X(P=0.000). Conclusions The clinical patients with CA have more severe symptoms than the patients without CA. Personality is extraversion more emotionally unstable.Their emotional intelligence and decision-making comprehensive ability is low, and violence tendency is obvious.Emotional neglect and sexual abuse have an important impact in the pathogenesis of the disease. Key words: Depression with anxious; Childhood abuse; Personality character