The Reliability of Traumatic and Adverse Experiences —Reply

In Reply We thank Dr Weems for his interest in our study. In a cohort study of 1196 individuals followed up to age 40 years, we found that the subjective experience of childhood maltreatment measured through retrospective self-report at age 29 years was associated with the number of subsequent follow-up phases when participants met the criteria for a depression or anxiety diagnosis, whereas the objective experience measured through official court records was not. Current and lifetime psychopathology at the time the subjective experience was assessed and explained its association with the later course of emotional disorders in participants who did not have objective measures of maltreatment but not in those who did.
Source: JAMA Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research