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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is highly prevalent in forensic settings causing a serious deterioration of the primary psychiatric disorder.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Aims<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our study aims to evaluate the prevalence of PTSD and the role of traumatic experiences and abuse in the development of severe psychiatric disorders in a sample of psychiatric offenders.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Fifty-three patients admitted in Italian high intensity therapeutic facilities\u2014the\n                      <jats:italic>Residenze per l'Esecuzione delle Misure di Sicurezza<\/jats:italic>\n                      (REMS)\u2014were evaluated with the\n                      <jats:italic>Trauma Experience Checklist (TEC)<\/jats:italic>\n                      and the\n                      <jats:italic>Millon Clinical Multiaxal Inventory (MCMI-III)<\/jats:italic>\n                      to study lifetime traumatic memories and general psychopathology, respectively.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Preliminary findings show that about 41% (\n                      <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 22) of psychiatric offenders were affected by PTSD, often not due to a single episode but to multiple lifetime traumas. Therefore, lifetime traumatic experiences and specifically sexual abuse are significant risk factors for the development of a personality disorder, which is present in the 38% (\n                      <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 20) of the sample.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The high PTSD prevalence and the strong association found between trauma and abuse with the development of a personality disorder emphasizes the importance of an early evaluation and intervention on traumatic experiences in this difficult population of psychiatric patients; in fact, the treatment of psychiatric offenders is actually vague and devoid of scientific evidence. 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