Effect of physical health
RESEARCHERS HAVE recently begun to examine the impact of psychological responses to trauma, specifically, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology, on health. For women, a significant positive correlation has been reported between the severity of PTSD symptoms and physical health problems in victims of sexual assault and veterans of war (Kimerling et al 2000 and Zoellner et al 2000). However, there is a paucity of research examining the relationship between PTSD, PTSD symptom clusters, and physical health in women who have left an intimate abusive relationship. Moreover, although there is some research that examines the physical and psychological effects of lifetime ...