Cumulative childhood trauma and complex psychiatric symptoms in pregnant women and expecting men

Table 4 Distributions of psychiatric comorbidities during pregnancy according to the level of exposure to childhood trauma

	No trauma		One trauma		Cumulative trauma²
Psychiatric problems¹	Freq	%	Freq	%	Freq	%
Women³
No psychiatric problem	1010	69.2%	244	16.7%	205	14.1%
One psychiatric problem	97	50.3%	45	23.3%	51	26.4%
Comorbid psychiatric problems	39	34.5%	28	24.8%	46	40.7%
Men⁴
No psychiatric problem	73	71.6%	17	16.7%	12	11.8%
One psychiatric problem	7	63.6%	3	27.3%	1	9.1%
Comorbid psychiatric problems	0	0%	0	0%	3	100%

¹Groups of psychiatric problems were computed according to the clinical cut-offs of the PCL-5 (≥ 33), K10 (≥ 30), STAXI-2 (T scores > 70), and SIFS (≥1.90).
²Groups of trauma were computed using the cut-offs of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. Participants were considered as having experienced multiple trauma when the scored higher than the cut-off on at least two scales among physical abuse (≥ 8), emotional abuse (≥ 10), sexual abuse (≥ 8), physical neglect (≥ 8), and emotional neglect (≥ 15).
³Women having been exposed to cumulative childhood trauma were significantly more likely to report comorbid problems during pregnancy than women who experienced a single type or no trauma, χ²(4) = 88.44, p < .001.
⁴Men having been exposed to cumulative childhood trauma were significantly more likely to report comorbid problems during pregnancy than men who experienced a single type or no trauma, V(4) = 0.29, p < .001.

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