A news study has claimed that mental problems in mental health in later years among kids can take place due to them facing sexual abuse in younger age.

Australian researchers stated that a role in the development of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia even years after the original event can be majorly played by traumatic sexual incidents, especially penetration.

Lead author of the study, Margaret C. Cutajar, D. Psych., M. A. P. S., of Monash University, Victoria, Australia stated, "Establishing that severe childhood sexual abuse is a risk factor for schizophrenia does have important clinical implications irrespective of questions of causality and irrespective of whether those whose abuse is revealed are typical."

Ongoing clinical and social support should be extended to those children who particularly in the peripubertal and postpubertal period experience penetration as this makes them more prone to psychotic illness in later stages of life.

The researchers analyzed notified cases of sexual trauma from police and medical records for examining whether early sexual abuse is a risk factor for later psychotic disorders.

About 2759 individual's psychiatric disorders were assessed and these were those people who had been sexually abused when younger than 16 years.

Over a 30-year period, a link was found by researchers between sexual trauma and subsequent diagnosis of a psychotic disorder. Higher rate of psychosis was found in victims of sexual abuse.