The objective of this scoping review was to describe and synthesize the measures, methods, and key findings of published quantitative research examining the influence of child maltreatment (i.e., abuse and/or neglect) and adult trauma exposure on mental health symptoms among women Veterans. A systematic search from database inception to June 2023 generated 18,861 unique articles retrieved and independently screened for eligibility. A total of 21 articles met pre-established inclusion criteria: (a) quantitative data and results within a sample or subsample of U.S. women veterans, (b) published in a peer-reviewed journal, and (c) examining variables of interest simultaneously (i.e., child maltreatment, adult trauma exposure, mental health symptom) in quantitative analyses. Reviewed literature showed a lack of uniformity in measurement and methodologies to evaluate women veterans’ lifetime trauma exposure in relation to mental health. Studies most frequently used self-report survey data to evaluate exposure to child maltreatment and/or adult trauma with convenience samples of women veterans (52.4%, n = 11) and examined depressive and/or posttraumatic stress symptomatology. Findings demonstrate the need for additional research attending to the interplay between child maltreatment and adult trauma exposures in relation to women veterans’ mental health using comprehensive assessment, longitudinal methods, and understudied as well as more representative samples.

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女性退伍军人中的儿童虐待、成人创伤和心理健康症状：对已发表的定量研究的范围界定审查

本次范围审查的目的是描述和综合已发表的定量研究的措施、方法和主要结果，该研究检查儿童虐待（即虐待和/或忽视）和成人创伤暴露对女性退伍军人心理健康症状的影响。从数据库建立到 2023 年 6 月的系统搜索产生了 18,861 篇独特的文章，这些文章被检索并独立筛选了资格。共有 21 篇文章符合预先制定的纳入标准：(a) 美国女性退伍军人样本或子样本中的定​​量数据和结果，(b) 发表在同行评审期刊上，以及 (c) 同时检查感兴趣的变量（即定量分析中的儿童虐待、成人创伤暴露、心理健康症状）。审查的文献表明，评估女退伍军人一生创伤经历与心理健康相关的测量和方法缺乏统一性。研究最常使用自我报告调查数据来评估儿童虐待和/或成人创伤的暴露情况，并以女性退伍军人（52.4%，n = 11）为方便样本，并检查抑郁和/或创伤后应激症状。研究结果表明，需要开展更多研究，利用综合评估、纵向方法以及未充分研究和更具代表性的样本，关注儿童虐待和成人创伤暴露之间与女退伍军人心理健康相关的相互作用。