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Abstract
According to the World Health Organization, major depressive disorder is the second most debilitating disease.
Childhood trauma is a significant risk factor for major depressive disorder, which has a multifactorial etiology.
In adult life, conditions, such as acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and major depressive disorder, are associated with stress and trauma. Most of the time, these psychopathologies are limited to traumatic incidences. Psychopathology usually disappears when the experience is resolved. However, it is a very different story if it occurs during childhood. Trauma during the early years of life also impairs neurodevelopmental and psychological progress. Moreover, it is debated to be the cause of personality disorders.
So, this case control study was conducted in the psychiatry outpatient clinic Suez Canal University Hospitals to describe the difference in clinical profile of depressive disorders between adults with childhood abuse and adult without, and to assess relationship between history of childhood abuse and the clinical profile of depressive disorders at adulthood.
Included adults suspected to have depressive disorders divided into 2 groups, group A: Patients diagnosed with depressive disorders and history of childhood abuse and group B: Patients diagnosed with depressive disorders without history of childhood abuse (control group).
Excluding patientswith Patients were excluded from the study if they had any of the following criteria, patients with mental retardation, patients with Intellectual Impairment, patients with organic brain disorders and patients with serious medical diseases.