Voice-hearers' beliefs about the causes of their voices.

Authors :: Tolmeijer E
Hardy A
Jongeneel A
Staring ABP
van der Gaag M
Berg DVD
Source :: Psychiatry research [Psychiatry Res] 2021 Aug; Vol. 302, pp. 113997. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 May 13.
Publication Year :: 2021
Abstract: Despite empirical evidence for multifactorial causes of voice-hearing, people's own beliefs about what caused their voices are understudied. People with distressing voices (n=125) completed measures of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and beliefs about causality. Most participants reported trauma in the past (97%) and PTSD symptoms were prevalent. Traumatic experiences were the most commonly endorsed causal factor of voice-hearing (64%), followed by distress (62%). Beliefs about biological causes, including drug use (22%), were least endorsed. Those who experienced more traumatic events and more PTSD symptoms were more likely to endorse trauma as a causal factor of voice-hearing (R <superscript>2</superscript> =0.38).<br /> (Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier B.V.)