The Wyatt Sex History Questionnaire

Wyatt, Gail E.; Lawrence, Jennifer; Vodounon, Andrea; Mickey, M. R.

doi:10.1300/j070v01n04_04

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“…If a women responded “yes” to any of the items, they were asked more detailed information regarding the experience that included the type of physical contact, age of the participant at the time of abuse, duration, relationship of the perpetrator to the participant, and whether this had happened with someone else before the age of 18. 29 Adult sexual abuse was assessed with two items that asked about experiences of attempted or actual rape since the age of 18. Responses were coded as yes=1, no=2.…”

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Trauma and Psychosocial Predictors of Substance Abuse in Women Impacted by HIV/AIDS

Myers

Sumner

Ullman

et al. 2008

J Behav Health Serv Res

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The purpose of this study was to estimate the relative contributions of trauma, chronic stress burden, depression, anxiety, social support, and social undermining in predicting alcohol and drug abuse, and whether ethnicity moderated these relationships. A multi-ethnic sample of 288 HIV-positive and HIV-negative women was recruited. Multiple group path analysis indicated that greater drug dependence was associated with being HIV+, more depression, and higher chronic burden. Trauma was related only to anxiety. Also, greater alcohol dependence was associated with more depression and more social undermining, and these effects were moderated by ethnicity. African American and Latina women evidenced different relationships between depression, social support and social undermining. Depression, social support and social undermining served as intervening variables in influencing the relationships between the other psychosocial variables and drug and alcohol dependence. The implications of these findings for alcohol and drug abuse research and services are discussed.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trauma and Psychosocial Predictors of Substance Abuse in Women Impacted by HIV/AIDS

Myers

Sumner

Ullman

et al. 2008

J Behav Health Serv Res

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“…Other research has indicated that these parental reactions to disclosure are an important factor in the child's ability to successfully cope with the experience of sexual abuse (Adams-Tucker, 1982; Everson et al., 1989; Goodwin, 1981; Johnson & Kenkel, 1991; Wyatt & Mickey, 1988). Johnson and Kenkel (1991) found that, among adolescent incest victims, nonsupportive reactions by mothers were rated as highly stressful and that this stressor was a highly significant predictor of self-reported emotional distress, accounting for 23% of variance on Brief Symptom Inventory (Derogatis, 1975) scores.…”

Section: Stressful Events In Sexual Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

“…It also has been demonstrated that sexual abuse often leads to related stressful events, such as nonsupportive responses to disclosure (Sirles & Franke, 1989) and parental separation (Tyler & Brassard, 1984). Children who experience a disbelieving or nonsupportive parental response to disclosure seem to be at greater risk for symptomatology (Adams-Tucker, 1982; Wyatt & Mickey, 1988). Heightened parental conflict (Caffaro-Rouget et al, 1989; Paveza, 1988) and impaired family role functioning (Alexander & Lupfer, 1987; Harter et al, 1988) are also associated with sexual abuse, but it remains unclear whether these factors are antecedents or consequences of abuse and how much they contribute to victims' short-term mental health outcomes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Stress, appraisal, and coping in child sexual abuse: A theoretical and empirical review.

Spaccarelli¹

1994

Psychological Bulletin

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A review of theories to predict the mental health effects of child sexual abuse suggests that existing models have not adequately defined stress and coping constructs and have not specified how those variables might interact with other environmental factors. This article outlines a transactional model that conceptualizes sexual abuse as a stressor consisting of a series of abuse events, abuse-related events, and disclosure-related events that each tend to increase risk for maladaptive outcomes. The model also proposes that cognitive appraisals and coping responses mediate the effects of these events, that developmental and environmental factors may moderate relationships between sexual abuse stressors and victim responses, and that victims' initial responses may effect subsequent levels of abuse-related stress. Empirical studies relevant to the major components of this model are reviewed, and the implications of these findings for future research are considered.

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“…Demographic characteristics included age, gender, race/ethnicity, education, household income, and employment. Early childhood adversities and traumas included (a) nonsexual early life adversities (e.g., parental incarceration, illness, disability, severe poverty), which were assessed using the family adversity scale (Kessler & Magee, 1993); (b) childhood sexual abuse, which was assessed as a composite report of consensual and nonconsensual sexual experiences before the age of 18 using the Wyatt Sexual History Questionnaire (Loeb et al, 2002;Wyatt, Lawrence, Voudounon, & Mickey, 1993); and (c) other nonsexual traumas (e.g., physical abuse, disasters, accidents, exposure to community violence), which were assessed using the Trauma History Questionnaire (THQ; Green, 1996).…”

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Development of a composite trauma exposure risk index.

Liu¹,

Prause²,

Williams³

et al. 2015

Psychological Assessment

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The high burden of exposure to chronic life adversities and trauma is quite prevalent, but assessment of this risk burden is uncommon in primary care settings. This calls for a brief, multiple dimensional mental health risk screening tool in primary care settings. We aimed to develop such a screening tool named the UCLA Life Adversities Screener (LADS). Using pooled data across four studies from the UCLA Center for Culture, Trauma and Mental Health Disparities, five domains of mental health risk including perceived discrimination, sexual abuse histories, family adversity, interpersonal violence, and trauma histories, were identified. Regression models for depression (Centers for Epidemiology Studies-Depression scale (CES-D)) and PTSD (Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS)), controlling for demographic factors, were fitted to to develop a weighted continuous scale score for the UCLA LADS. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the five-domain structure, while Item Response Theory (IRT) endorsed the inclusion of each item. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis indicated that the score was predictive for classifying subjects as reaching clinical threshold criteria for either depression (Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) ≥14 or Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) ≥ 10) or anxiety (Patient Health Questionnaire-13 (PHQ-13) ≥10). An optimal cut of 0.33 is suggested based on maximizing sensitivity and specificity of the LADS score, identifying patients at high risk for mental health problems. Given its predictive utility and ease of administration, the UCLA LADS could be useful as a screener to identify racial minority individuals in primary care settings who have a high trauma burden, needing more extensive evaluation.

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The Wyatt Sex History Questionnaire

Cited by 58 publications

References 10 publications

Trauma and Psychosocial Predictors of Substance Abuse in Women Impacted by HIV/AIDS

Trauma and Psychosocial Predictors of Substance Abuse in Women Impacted by HIV/AIDS

Stress, appraisal, and coping in child sexual abuse: A theoretical and empirical review.

Development of a composite trauma exposure risk index.

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