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April 12, 2022
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Childhood Trauma in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Dissociative, Psychotic Symptoms, and Suicide Behavior

Publicated to:Journal Of Nervous And Mental Disease. 209 (1): 40-48 - 2021-01-01 209(1), DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001253

Authors: Alvarez, Maria-Jose; Masramom, Helga; Foguet-Boreu, Quinti; Tasa-Vinyals, Elisabet; Garcia-Eslava, Jairo Santiago; Roura-Poch, Pere; Escote-Llobet, Santiago; Gonzalez, Anabel

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Clin St Josep, Dept Psychiat, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Complejo Hosp Univ A Coruna, Mental Hlth Dept, La Coruna, Spain - Author
Consorci Hosp Vic, Epidemil Dept, Vic, Spain - Author
Consorci Hosp Vic, Osona Salut Mental, Dept Psychiat & Mental Hlth, C Francesc Pla El Vigata S-N, Vic 08500, Spain - Author
Univ Vic, Cent Univ Catalonia UVic UCC, Fac Hlth Sci & Welf, Vic, Spain - Author
Univ Vic, Cent Univ Catalonia UVic UCC, Fac Med, Vic, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Current evidence suggests a high prevalence of childhood trauma (CT) among adult patients diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Exposure to CT might lead to clinical differences eventually observed in these patients. We present a cross-sectional study with 54 patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder (schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder). We obtained sociodemographic data, as well as data on CT, dissociation, suicide history, and intensity of positive and negative psychotic symptoms. More than 75% of the patients reported a history of CT. We observed a link between CT and suicidal behavior. Patients showed high rates of dissociation. Dissociative experiences were related to CT, both in terms of intensity of trauma and number of traumas experienced. All CT forms except emotional neglect showed direct correlations with dissociative experiences. We found no correlation between intensity of CT and intensity of positive psychotic symptoms, yet we observed a moderate inverse correlation with negative psychotic symptoms.

Keywords

Childhood traumaDissociationSchizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disordersSevere mental disordersSuicide attempts

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Journal Of Nervous And Mental Disease due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Psychiatry and Mental Health. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q4 for the agency WoS (JCR) in the category Psychiatry.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 1.22, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Oct 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-10-03, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 5

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-10-03:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 47.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 50 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.5.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: France.