TY  - JOUR
A1  - Friedmann, Franziska
A1  - Santangelo, Philip
A1  - Ebner-Priemer, Ulrich
A1  - Hill, Holger
A1  - Neubauer, Andreas B.
A1  - Rausch, Sophie
A1  - Steil, Regina
A1  - Müller-Engelmann, Meike
A1  - Kleindienst, Nikolaus
A1  - Bohus, Martin
A1  - Fydrich, Thomas
A1  - Priebe, Kathlen
T1  - Life within a limited radius: Investigating activity space in women with a history of child abuse using global positioning system tracking
T2  - PLoS one
N2  - Early experiences of childhood sexual or physical abuse are often associated with functional impairments, reduced well-being and interpersonal problems in adulthood. Prior studies have addressed whether the traumatic experience itself or adult psychopathology is linked to these limitations. To approach this question, individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and healthy individuals with and without a history of child abuse were investigated. We used global positioning system (GPS) tracking to study temporal and spatial limitations in the participants’ real-life activity space over the course of one week. The sample consisted of 228 female participants: 150 women with PTSD and emotional instability with a history of child abuse, 35 mentally healthy women with a history of child abuse (healthy trauma controls, HTC) and 43 mentally healthy women without any traumatic experiences in their past (healthy controls, HC). Both traumatized groups—i.e. the PTSD and the HTC group—had smaller movement radii than the HC group on the weekends, but neither spent significantly less time away from home than HC. Some differences between PTSD and HC in movement radius seem to be related to correlates of PTSD psychopathology, like depression and physical health. Yet group differences between HTC and HC in movement radius remained even when contextual and individual health variables were included in the model, indicating specific effects of traumatic experiences on activity space. Experiences of child abuse could limit activity space later in life, regardless of whether PTSD develops.
KW  - Child abuse
KW  - Mental health and psychiatry
KW  - Post-traumatic stress disorder
KW  - Depression
KW  - Psychological and psychosocial issues
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - Behavior
KW  - Global positioning system
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53551
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-535519
SN  - 1932-6203
N1  - Copyright: © 2020 Friedmann et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 15
IS  - (5): e0232666
SP  - 1
EP  - 20
PB  - PLoS
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
ER  -