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National programme for improving mental health and well-being small research projects initiative 2006-07: mental health problems and medically-unexplained physical symptoms in adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse: a literature review and scoping
- Authors:
- NELSON Sarah, BALDWIN Norma, TAYLOR Julie
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- Dundee
Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is associated with vulnerability to a range of mental and physical ill health. The origins of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) in people sexually abused in childhood, and the relationship to their mental health, are disputed or uncertain, affecting patient care. There is a lack of appropriate therapeutic support for the CSA client group with MUS, highlighting significant needs of service users and professionals who work with them. A review is presented that aimed to identify current research and gaps in the research, in order to establish what is known, and to assess what further research is needed to understand these conditions and develop best-practice guidelines. The review had as its prime focus the implications, for adult survivors of abuse, of any linkages which studies revealed across medically unexplained symptoms, mental health and child sexual abuse.