Anxiety and mood (대한불안의학회지)

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Relationship between Negative Sexual Experience and Psychiatric Symptoms in Patients with Depression or Anxiety Disorders by Gender and Type of Negative Sexual Experience

우울 및 불안장애 환자에서 성별 및 성경험 유형에 따른 부정적 성경험과 정신과적 증상 사이의 연관성

  • Ji, Min-A (Department of Psychiatry, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Jeong, Bo-Ram (The Catholic Emotion Research Laboratory, Catholic Biomedical Industrial Institute, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Chae, Jeong-Ho (Department of Psychiatry, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
  • 지민아 (가톨릭대학교 의과대학 서울성모병원 정신건강의학교실) ;
  • 정보람 (가톨릭대학교 의생명 산업연구원 정서연구실) ;
  • 채정호 (가톨릭대학교 의과대학 서울성모병원 정신건강의학교실)
  • Received : 2019.03.05
  • Accepted : 2019.06.12
  • Published : 2019.10.31
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Abstract

Objective : This study aims to investigate the relationship between negative sexual experience and psychiatric symptoms by gender and compare the effects of sexual assault and unwanted sexual experiences on psychiatric symptoms in patients with depression or anxiety disorders. Methods : A total of 204 respondents who have had negative sexual experiences of outpatients diagnosed with depression or anxiety disorders were evaluated with AUDIT, PSS, STAI, BDI, and SSI. Independent samples t-test was performed to compare the psychiatric symptom scale scores between male and female and identify the difference of the psychiatric symptom scale scores between those who have had sexual assault and those who have had only unwanted sexual experience. Results : There was no difference in psychiatric symptom scale scores except for AUDIT between male and female in 204 patients with negative sexual experience. There was also no significant difference in AUDIT, PSS, and STAI scores between those who experienced sexual assault and those who experienced only unwanted sexual experiences. BDI and SSI scores are significant higher in those who experienced sexual assault than those who experienced only unwanted sexual experiences. Conclusion : This suggests that male and female may have similar levels of psychiatric symptoms after experiencing negative sexual experiences. Psychiatric symptoms caused by sexual assault may have differences from the psychiatric symptoms caused by unwanted sexual experience. Understanding the differences in psychiatric symptoms according to the type of negative sexual experience may helpful to direct the therapeutic plans.

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