Journal article
Auditory verbal hallucinations and childhood trauma subtypes across the psychosis continuum: a cluster analysis
MJH Begemann, IE Sommer, RM Brand, PP Oomen, A Jongeneel, J Berkhout, RE Molenaar, NN Wielage, WL Toh, SL Rossell, IH Bell
Cognitive Neuropsychiatry | Published : 2022
Abstract
Introduction: A strong link between voice-hearing experience and childhood trauma has been established. The aim of this study was to identify whether there were unique clusters of childhood trauma subtypes in a sample across the clinical spectrum of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) and to examine clinical and phenomenological features across these clusters. Methods: Combining two independent international datasets (the Netherlands and Australia), childhood trauma subtypes were examined using hierarchical cluster analysis. Clinical and phenomenological characteristics were compared across emerging clusters using MANOVA and chi-squared analyses. Results: The total sample (n = 413) included..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The Spectrum study was funded by two personal grants for IES: Dutch Scientific Research Organisation (Nederlandse Wetenschappelijke Organisatie NWO, grant nr. 916.56.172) and NWO/ZonMw (Dutch Scientific Research Organization) Innovation Impulse (VIDI) Where the voices come from, and how to get rid of them, nr. 017.106.301. The Voices Phenomenology study was funded by a number of Australian National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants -project grant awarded to SLR (GNT1060664), a New Investigator project grant awarded to WLT (GNT1161609), and a Senior Research Fellowship awarded to SLR (GNT1154651), as well as a Barbara Dicker Brain Sciences Foundation (BDBSF) project grant awarded to WLT and SLR.