DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i06.028

Pages: 2172-2176

The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between childhood trauma, dissociative symptoms and psychopathology in patients suffering from schizophrenia. Stay had a crossectional design with purposive sampling with sample size of 60 patients suffering from schizophrenia who were assessed by childhood Trauma Questionnaire-short form (CTQ-SF), dissociative Experience scale-II (DES-II), and positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) for schizophrenia. Childhood physical abuse was reported by 30%, emotional neglect by 31.7%, emotional abuse by 43.3%, physical neglect by 33.3% and sexual abuse by 23.3% of the study sample. Positive correlation between dissociative symptoms (measured by mean-DES score) and PANSS (Positive symptoms and total PANSS score) was found. Significant positive correlation between childhood truma(measured by total CTQ score) and PANSS (positive symptoms) was also found. Childhood trauma, clinical dissociation and schizophrenia are closely related.