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Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
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Background The relationship of health risk behavior and disease in adulthood to the breadth of exposure to childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction during childhood has not previously been described. Methods A questionnaire about adverse childhood experiences was mailed to 13,494 adults who had completed a standardized medical evaluation at a large HMO; 9,508 (70.5%) responded. Seven categories of adverse childhood experiences were studied: psychological, physical, or sexual abuse; violence against mother; or living with household members who were substance abusers, mentally ill or suicidal, or ever imprisoned. The number of categories of these adverse childhood experiences was then compared to measures of adult risk behavior, health status, and disease. Logistic regression was used to adjust for effects of demographic factors on the association between the cumulative number of categories of childhood exposures (range: 0-7) and risk factors for the leading causes of death in adult life. Results More than half of respondents reported at least one, and one-fourth reported > or = 2 categories of childhood exposures. We found a graded relationship between the number of categories of childhood exposure and each of the adult health risk behaviors and diseases that were studied (P or = 50 sexual intercourse partners, and sexually transmitted disease; and 1.4- to 1.6-fold increase in physical inactivity and severe obesity. The number of categories of…
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“Longitudinal follow-up of adults whose childhood abuse was well documented has shown that their retrospective reports of childhood abuse are likely to under-estimate actual occurrence.47,48”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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- Partly supportedcites [47] Femina, 1990, Child abuse, Child Abuse Negl sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results report that eight adults with well-documented abuse in their adolescent records denied it at follow-up, and the Discussion says retrospective inaccuracies in this sample were in the direction of under-reporting. The paper limits that finding to a small sample of former delinquents and says its generalizability is uncertain; the claim does not retain that population qualifier. (LLM, conf=0.82)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [48] Williams, 1995, Recovered memories of abuse in women with documented child sexual victimization histories, J Traumatic Stress source
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“More than half of respondents reported at least one, and one-fourth reported Ն2 categories of childhood exposures.”
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“There was no statistically significant dose-response relationship for a history of stroke or diabetes.”
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“we found a strong, dose-response relationship between the number of childhood exposures and each of the 10 risk factors for the leading causes of death that we studied (P Ͻ .001).”
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“The seven categories of adverse childhood experiences were strongly interrelated and persons with multiple categories of childhood exposure were likely to have multiple health risk factors later in life.”
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“More than half of respondents reported at least one, and one-fourth reported Ն2 categories of childhood exposures.”
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“More than half of respondents (52%) experienced Ն1 category of adverse childhood exposure; 6.2% reported Ն4 exposures.”
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“and a 1.4-to 1.6-fold increase in physical inactivity and severe obesity.”
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“The seven categories of adverse childhood experiences were strongly interrelated and persons with multiple categories of childhood exposure were likely to have multiple health risk factors later in life.”
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“The relationship between single categories of exposure was significant for all comparisons (P Ͻ .001;chi-square).”
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“The number of categories of adverse childhood exposures showed a graded relationship to the presence of adult diseases including ischemic heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, skeletal fractures, and liver disease.”
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“Disease conditions including ischemic heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, skeletal fractures, and liver disease, as well as poor self-rated health also showed a graded relationship to the breadth of childhood exposures.”
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“We also found a significant (P Ͻ .05)dose-response relationship between the number of childhood exposures and the following disease conditions: ischemic heart disease, cancer, chronic bronchitis or emphysema, history of hepatitis or jaundice, skeletal fractures, and poor self-rated health.”
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“a 2-to 4-fold increase in smoking, poor self-rated health, Ն50 sexual intercourse partners, and sexually transmitted disease;”
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“For example, among persons with no childhood exposures, 56% had none of the 10 risk factors whereas only 14% of persons with Ն4 categories of childhood exposure had no risk factors.”
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“The most prevalent of the 7 categories of childhood exposure was substance abuse in the household (25.6%); the least prevalent exposure category was evidence of criminal behavior in the household (3.4%).”
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“By contrast, only 1% of persons with no childhood exposures had four or more risk factors, whereas 7% of persons with Ն4 childhood exposures had four or more risk factors (Table 6).”
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“| Mental illness | | 18.8 |”
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“| Ն65 | 2,610 | 60.0 | 24.5 | 8.9 | 4.2 | 2.4 |”
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“| 19-34 | 807 | 35.4 | 25.4 | 17.2 | 11.0 | 10.9 |”
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“| Psychological | | 11.1 |”
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“| Mother treated violently | | 12.5 |”
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“| 0 | 3,861 | 56 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 1 |”
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“| Ն4 | 545 | 14 | 26 | 28 | 17 | 7 |”
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“Similarly, the odds ratios for skeletal fractures, hepatitis or jaundice, and poor self-rated health were 1.6, 2.3, and 2.2, respectively (Table 8).”
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“| Substance abuse | | 25.6 |”
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“The relationship between single categories of exposure was significant for all comparisons (P Ͻ .001;chi-square).For persons reporting any single category of exposure, the probability of exposure to any additional category ranged from 65%-93% (median: 80%); similarly, the probability of Ն2 additional exposures ranged from 40%-74% (median: 54.5%).”
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“Because adverse childhood experiences are common and they have strong long-term associations with adult health risk behaviors, health status, and diseases, increased attention to primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies is needed.”
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“Respondent (n ϭ 9,508) and nonrespondent (n ϭ 3,986) groups were similar in their percentages of women (53.7% and 51.0%, respectively) and in their mean years of education (14.0 years and 13.6 years, respectively).”
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“After second mailings of the questionnaire to persons who did not respond to the first mailing, the response rate for the survey was 70.5% (9,508/13,494).”
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“Respondents were slightly more likely to answer affirmatively than nonrespondents (6.1% vs. 5.4%, respectively).”
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“Without measuring these household factors as well, long-term influence might be wrongly attributed solely to single types of abuse and the cumulative influence of multiple categories of adverse childhood experiences would not be assessed.”
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“We used questions from published surveys to construct the ACE Study questionnaire.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [39] Straus, 1990 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [40] Wyatt, 1985, The sexual abuse of Afro-American and White-American women in childhood, Child Abuse Negl source
- Not checked yetcites [41] National Center for Health Statistics. Exposure to alcoholism in the family: United States, 1988. Advance Data, No. 205. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC; September 30, 1991.
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“Respondents were older than nonrespondents (means 56.1 years and 49.3 years) and more likely to be white (83.9% vs. 75.3%)although the actual magnitude of the differences was small.”
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“Studies of the long-term effects of childhood abuse have usually examined single types of abuse, particularly sexual abuse, and few have assessed the impact of more than one type of abuse.5,24 -28”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [5] McCauley, 1997, Clinical characteristics of women with a history of childhood abuse, JAMA source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [24] Briere, 1988, Multivariate correlates of childhood psychological and physical maltreatment among university women, Child Abuse Negl source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [25] Briere, 1990, Differential adult symptomatology associated with three types of child abuse histories, Child Abuse Negl source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [26] Claussen, 1991, Physical and psychological maltreatment, Child Abuse Negl source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [27] Moeller, 1993, The combined effects of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse during childhood, Child Abuse Negl source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [28] Bryant, 1995, Suicidality in college women who were sexually and physically punished by parents, Violence Vict source
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“Respondents and nonrespondents did not differ with regard to their self-rated health, smoking, other substance abuse, or the presence of common medical conditions such as a history of heart attack or stroke, chronic obstructive lung disease, hypertension, or diabetes, or with regard to marital status or current family, marital, or job-related problems (data not shown).”
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“For example, the American Medical Association recommends screening of women for exposure to violence at every entrance to the health system; 66 however, such screening appears to be rare.67”
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- Not checked yetcites [66] 1992, American Medical Association Diagnostic and Treatment Guidelines on Domestic Violence, Arch Fam Med
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“In addition, there may be mediators of the relationship between childhood experiences and adult health status other than the risk factors we examined.”
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“High levels of exposure to adverse childhood experiences would expectedly produce anxiety, anger, and depression in children.”
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“Although articles in the general medical literature are alerting the medical community to the fact that childhood abuse is common, 59 adolescent health care is often inadequate in terms of psychosocial assessment and anticipatory guidance.60”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [60] Rixey, 1994, Family violence and the adolescent, Maryland Med J
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“For example, nicotine is recognized as having beneficial psychoactive effects in terms of regulating affect 49 and persons who are depressed are more likely to smoke.50,51”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [49] Carmody, 1989, Affect regulation, nicotine addiction, and smoking cessation, J Psychoactive Drugs source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [50] Anda, 1990, Depression and the dynamics of smoking. A national perspective, JAMA source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [51] Glassman, 1990, Smoking, smoking cessation, and major depression, JAMA source
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“To the degree that behaviors such as smoking, alcohol, or drug use are found to be effective as coping devices, they would tend to be used chronically.”
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“Many physicians may fear that discussions of sexual violence and other sensitive issues are too personal even for the doctor-patient relationship.65”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [65] Sugg, 1992, Primary care physicians’ response to domestic violence. Opening Pandora’s box, JAMA source
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“because it is strongly predictive of mortality.45”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > 3.4 Any category reported 52.1%
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [45] Idler, 1990, Self-rated health and mortality in the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, Am J Pub Health source
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“Second, some persons with health risk behaviors or diseases may have been either more, or less, likely to report adverse childhood experiences.”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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“Moreover, these childhood exposures include emotionally sensitive topics such as family alcoholism 29,30 and sexual abuse.64”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [29] Zeitlen, 1994, Children with alcohol misusing parents, Br Med Bull source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [30] Dore, 1995, Identifying substance abuse in maltreating families, Child Abuse Negl source
- Not checked yetcites [64] Tabachnick, 1997, Perceptions of child sexual abuse as a public health problem. Vermont, September 1995, Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
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“Furthermore, disease conditions could be either over-or under-reported by patients when they complete the medical questionnaire.”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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“The relationship between childhood experiences and adult health status is likely to be overlooked in medical practice because the time delay between exposure during childhood and recognition of health problems in adult medical practice is lengthy.”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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“The data about adverse childhood experiences are based on self-report, retrospective, and can only demonstrate associations between childhood exposures and health risk behaviors, health status, and diseases in adulthood.”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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“Thus, smoking, which is medically and socially viewed as a “problem” may, from the perspective of the user, represent an effective immediate solution that leads to chronic use.”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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“Although articles in the general medical literature are alerting the medical community to the fact that childhood abuse is common, 59 adolescent health care is often inadequate in terms of psychosocial assessment and anticipatory guidance.60”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [59] MacMillan, 1997, Prevalence of child physical and sexual abuse in the community. Results from the Ontario Health Supplement, JAMA source
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“Logistic regression analysis was employed to adjust for the potential confounding effects of age, sex, race, and educational attainment on the relationship between the number of childhood exposures and health problems.”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Statistical Analysis
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Conditions such as drug abuse, spousal violence, and criminal activity in the household may co-occur with specific forms of abuse that involve children.
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“Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) were documented at baseline using the 10-item ACE Study questionnaire to measure childhood trauma, and were grouped as either “0–3” or “4+” due to the high rate of chronic health problems among individuals with scores of 4 or more 37.”
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“Both exposure to IPV and parental separation or divorce are two adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that are linked in a dose–response relationship to adverse health consequences through the lifespan (Felitti et al., 1998).”
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“There is a strong, graded link between exposure to childhood adversity and risk of negative health, social, and emotional outcomes, including several major categories of chronic disease, lung cancer, various autoimmune diseases, depression and other mental illnesses, and high-risk behaviors (e.g., Felitti et al., 1998).”
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“on average, the life span of individuals with six or more ACEs is 20 years shorter than that of those with zero ACEs (Felitti et al., 1998).”
From Malleability, plasticity, and individuality: How children learn and develop in context1 (2019) · cites this paper as Felitti et al., 1998
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“while adults with ELS/CT experience could be at increased risk of disease with potentially immune origin (36, 53).”
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“In one study of more than 9,500 adults, for example, exposure to multiple forms of early life stress was associated with a 4.6-fold increase in risk of being depressed over the past year (Felitti et al., 1998).”
From From stress to inflammation and major depressive disorder: A social signal transduction theory of depression. (2014) · cites this paper as Felitti et al., 1998
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“Children enter foster care with a sum of adverse childhood experiences.55–57”
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“Adverse childhood experiences, including growing up in a context of maternal substance use (74), predicts an earlier age of onset for alcohol (62, 75) and other drug use (76, 77), and increased odds for attempting suicide (78).”
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“Outcomes associated with early adversity include higher risk of type 2 diabetes, obesity, ischemic heart disease, cancers, depression, addictions, and premature mortality, as well as social outcomes including unemployment and lower educational attainment [1–8].”
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“Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that adverse childhood experiences, namely exposures such as neglect, abuse, caregiver mental illness, and family or community violence, predict poorer long-term outcomes across health and social domains.”
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“Interest in metabolic embedding of ELA stems from epidemiological [1, 69] and clinical [70] studies linking ELA to obesity, dyslipidemia, and type 2 diabetes, raising questions about possible causal pathways.”
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“Adverse psychosocial exposures in early life, namely experiences such as child maltreatment, caregiver stress or depression, and domestic or community violence, have been associated in epidemiological studies with increased lifetime risk of adverse outcomes, including diabetes, heart disease, cancers, and psychiatric illnesses.”
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“In full, ELA-induced changes may mediate epidemiological links to key diseases, including, among others, obesity, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis, asthma, thromboembolic events (myocardial infarction, stroke), cancer onset and progression, as well as addictions, psychopathology, and adverse social outcomes [1–6, 18].”
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“These frequencies are consistent with previous studies documenting elevated rates of childhood adversity among individuals with SUD [3, 5, 9].”
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“Adverse childhood experiences are associated with many negative adult health and health care utilisation outcomes, including cardiovascular illness, depression, suicide attempts, unhealthy substance use, obesity, lung disease, liver disease, cancer and medically unexplained symptoms such as pain or gastrointestinal problems[1–6].”
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“Dose-response relationships between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and multiple risk factors have been documented among AIANs and non-AIANs [51,70].”
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“Rather, the overwhelming majority of studies14 have employed an empirical specification similar to that which has predominated in the literature on childhood adversity, i.e., a sum score of exposures.15–18”
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“Much research associates CT with adverse physical and mental health outcomes (1,2)”
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“Moreover, there is commonly a dose-response relationship between the number of types of adversity associated and the magnitude of the risk for depression.4-11”
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“Similarly, the original ACE study [3] demonstrated that individuals exposed to multiple adverse experiences had a four- to twelve-fold increased risk for alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, and suicide attempts.”
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“Exposure to ELA is associated with a clustering of health risks, with increasing exposure related to an increasing number of HRBs.32”
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“Such an approach facilitates the synthesis of complex evidence for application, and is supported by observed dose–response effects linking cumulative early adversity to later outcomes [1, 3, 5], and by the “allostatic load” paradigm exploring pathogenic effects of cumulative all-cause stress [15].”
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“Dose-response relationship between number of adversities and health and social effects are observed in large epidemiological studies”
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“Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) considerably increase the likelihood of mental illness, health risk behaviors, and chronic physical illnesses.”
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“These findings are consistent with research that has supported the relationship between ACEs and further negative health consequences in the general population (Buckingham & Daniolos, 2013;Cicchetti & Handley, 2019;Felitti et al., 1998;Hughes et al., 2017).”
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“Also, adults who were abused as children have been shown to be at increased risk of disease with potential inflammatory origin (9, 10).”
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“Inflammation may be an important developmental mediator linking adverse experiences in early life to poor adult health.”
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“Given that the effect of stress often appears to be cumulative (2, 9, 19), we derived a cumulative exposure index for each child by counting the number of maltreatment experiences during the first decade of life (31);”
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“Childhood adversity has been repeatedly and robustly linked to physical and mental illness across the lifespan.”
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“The first study using the DAWBA-RAD section reported a very high RAD point-prevalence of 63.0% (96/153) in a sample of looked after youth in a variety of placement forms [29].”
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“Compared to another study on RAD using DAWBA in high-risk foster youths [29], our estimate was quite moderate.”
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“Victims of childhood physical or sexual abuse or parental neglect are at considerably greater risk for affective disorders.1-4”
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“Epidemiological studies provide compelling support for the association between cumulative, adverse childhood experiences and the risk for depression.4,5”
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“In humans, various forms of ELA are associated with illicit drug use later in life [21,22,23].”
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“In addition, there are established links between ELA and obesity [21,24], however, the exact mechanisms are not understood.”
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“The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study from 1998 highlighted 5- to 10-fold increase in the risk of AUD and SUD following exposure to four or more ACEs in the first 18 years of life [112].”
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“Indeed, ELA is associated with a greater likelihood of smoking cigarettes,32,43,44 abusing alcohol and drugs,32,45–47 eating a poor diet,48 and being obese.32,49”
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“ELA has also been associated with physical inactivity, which likely also contributes to the link between ELA and obesity.32”
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“Research has consistently found that care leavers are more likely to have experienced high levels of adverse childhood experience (ACEs) and are at significantly greater risk for negative outcomes (Felitti et al., 1998; Simkiss, 2019).”
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“The documented risks of having care experience are substantial and varied (Berlin et al., 2011; Felitti et al., 1998; Simkiss, 2019).”
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“Early life physical and sexual abuse carry with it a life-long burden of behavioral and pathophysiological problems (Felitti et al., 1998; Heim and Nemeroff, 2001).”
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“There are enormous individual differences in the response to stress, based upon the experience of the individual early in life and in adult life.”
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“Early life physical and sexual abuse imposes a life- long burden of behavioral and pathophysiological problems.41,42”
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“Early-life events related to maternal care in animals, as well as parental care in humans, play a powerful role in later mental and physical health, as demonstrated by the adverse childhood experiences (ACE) studies”
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“ACE have a disproportionately powerful effect on life long trajectories of health and disease, 68 and poverty contributes in its own way as well as creating circumstances for ACE, 114 which, however, occurs across all levels of socioeconomic status (SES).”
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“Boarding schools as a form of cultural genocide and source of historical trauma have had a variety of negative health impacts on Native people, such as high suicide rates, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes that are connected to trauma (Brave Heart et al. 2011;Duran 2019;Felitti et al. 1998).”
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§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Abstract
“We found a graded relationship between the number of categories of childhood exposure and each of the adult health risk behaviors and diseases that were studied (P Ͻ .001).”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Significance of Dose-Response Relationships
“There was no statistically significant dose-response relationship for a history of stroke or diabetes.”
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§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Exclusions from Analysis
“The mean age of the 8,506 persons included in this analysis was 56.1 years”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Exclusions from Analysis
“After these exclusions, 8,056 of the original 9,508 survey respondents (59.7% of the original sample of 13,494) remained and were included in the analysis.”
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§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Abstract
“a 1.4-to 1.6-fold increase in physical inactivity and severe obesity.”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
“| | 4 or more | 523 | 26.6 | 1.3 | ( 1.1-1.6) |”
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§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Relationship between Childhood Exposures and Disease Conditions
“Similarly, the odds ratios for skeletal fractures, hepatitis or jaundice, and poor self-rated health were 1.6, 2.3, and 2.2, respectively (Table 8).”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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“Parents also reported on the presence during their own childhood of 10 possible adverse events (M = 3.5, SD = 2.75; Felitti et al., 1998).”
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“…and adolescent MRBs are both associated with several of the leading causes of death in adults including ischaemic heart disease and cancer (Felitti et al., 2019) as well as with premature mortality in the range of a 20- year life expectancy reduction for individuals reporting 6…”
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Poumeaud, F., Mircher, C., Smith, P. J. K., Faye, P.-A., & Sturtz, F. G. (2021) · Neurobiology of Stress · doi:10.1016/j.ynstr.2021.100305 · Cited by 11
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“adverse events during childhood are more likely to have poorer mental and physical health as well as a greater risk of premature death compared with adults who do not experience adverse events during childhood (Felitti et al., 1998; Gilbert et al., 2015).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialAlvarez, C., Sabina, C., Brockie, T., Perrin, N., Román, M. J. S., Escobar‐Acosta, L., Vrany, E. A., Cooper, L. A., & Hill‐Briggs, F. (2022) · Journal of Interpersonal Violence · doi:10.1177/08862605211072159 · Cited by 17
“Given that this questionnaire was developed with a middle-income, middle-aged andWhite sample (Felitti et al., 1998), in order to better capture experiences of diversity, particularly from low-income and marginalized groups, researchers have advocated assessing a broader range of adverse childhood…”
BackgroundInfluentialPrevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Frontline Homeless Services Workers in Texas
Aykanian, A., & Mammah, R. O. (2022) · Families in Society The Journal of Contemporary Social Services · doi:10.1177/10443894211063579 · Cited by 11
“This prevalence rate is higher than the original ACEs studies (Dong et al., 2004; Dube et al., 2004; Felitti et al., 1998).”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialLópez-Tamayo, R., Suárez, L., Simpson, D., & Volpe, K. A. (2022) · Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma · doi:10.1007/s40653-022-00447-4 · Cited by 11
“The cumulative risk framework (Evans et al., 2013; Felitti et al., 1998) has become the most common model for assessing risk for psychopathology based on the sum of exposure to individual adversities or cumulative risk score (Henry et al.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialStanley, I. H., Marx, B. P., Nichter, B., & Pietrzak, R. H. (2022) · Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior · doi:10.1111/sltb.12860 · Cited by 11
Truhan, T. E., Sedikides, C., McIlvenna, M., Andrae, L., Turner, R. N., & Papageorgiou, K. Α. (2022) · Journal of Youth and Adolescence · doi:10.1007/s10964-022-01602-8 · Cited by 11
“Contextual factors were assessed with the Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire (ACE-Q; Felitti et al., 1998) as well as a demographics measure relevant to SES (adapted from Kochanska et al., 2012).”
InfluentialA Clinical and Psychopathological Approach to Radicalization Among Adolescents
Campelo, N., Oppetit, A., Thompson, C., Cohen, D., & Louët, E. (2022) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2022.788154 · Cited by 16
“Finally, for the “traumatic experience” part of the study, we used the criteria highlighted by the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Scale (44).”
MethodIshikawa, K., Azuma, N., & Ohka, M. (2022) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.852467 · Cited by 11
Romm, K. F., Patterson, B., Wang, Y., et al. (2022) · Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs · doi:10.15288/jsad.2022.83.342 · Cited by 11
The Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Postpartum Depression
Prentice, D. M., Otaibi, B. W., Stetter, C., Kunselman, A. R., & Ural, S. (2022) · Frontiers in Global Women s Health · doi:10.3389/fgwh.2022.898765 · Cited by 17
“Adults who experienced ACEs are more likely to engage in behaviors that are known to impair parenting and child health such as tobacco use, substance abuse, and risky sexual behaviors (7).”
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Children’s needs during disclosures of abuse
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Treating Persistent Pain: A Nurse Co-Led, Interdisciplinary Model for Primary Care
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Why Should Educators Receive Training in Childhood Trauma?
Garay, B., Leonet, G. L., Corres-Medrano, I., & Santamaría-Goicuria, I. (2022) · Trends in Psychology · doi:10.1007/s43076-022-00223-1 · Cited by 12
“…household dysfunction (due to mental health problems, internment in penitentiary institutions, gender violence, drug use, separation from parents (Felitti et al., 1998) and/or situations in the social or spatial context (environmental disasters or wars) (Cronholm et al., 2015; Finkelhor et al.,…”
Soares, S., Santos, A. C., & Fraga, S. J. D. S. (2022) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0273329 · Cited by 12
“Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are defined as stressful and/or traumatic experiences that occur during childhood and include emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, emotional and physical neglect, and household dysfunction [1].”
BackgroundMethodAdverse Childhood Experiences among a Sample of Youth Living with HIV in the Deep South
Chenneville, T., Drake, H., Cario, A., et al. (2022) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph19159740 · Cited by 11
“Finally, while the use of the original 10-item ACEs instrument [8] may be considered a strength in some”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialKonrad, C., Inhoffen, J., Friederich, H., Hartmann, M., & Wild, B. (2022) · Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases · doi:10.1016/j.soard.2022.09.003 · Cited by 11
Najman, J. M., Clavarino, A. M., McGee, T. R., Middeldorp, C. M., Williams, G. M., & Scott, J. G. (2022) · Journal of Psychiatric Research · doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.09.020 · Cited by 10
Mueller, K. C., & Carey, M. T. (2022) · Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice · doi:10.1177/15412040221131278 · Cited by 15
Haldar, S., Studd, H., Wong, N., Mohr, D. C., Reddy, M. C., & Miller, E. S. (2022) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.1145/3555614 · Cited by 11
“For this process, patients complete the PHQ-9, GAD-7, a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) measurement, the screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), and the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) [29,69].”
MethodLong, D., Hessler, D., Koita, K., Bucci, M., Benson, M., Gilgoff, R., Thakur, N., & Harris, N. B. (2022) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0273491 · Cited by 11
“The PEARLS tool includes the ten original ACE categories [2] and assessment of seven additional Related Life Events [10] thought to increase the risk of a toxic stress response [11] including separation from caregiver, caregiver death and caregiver physical illness as well as social determinants of health including fo…”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialCraig, J. M., Wolff, K. T., Pierce, K., Zettler, H. R., & Baglivio, M. T. (2022) · Journal of Criminal Justice · doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2022.101998 · Cited by 11
Roth, A., Meigen, C., Hiemisch, A., Kieß, W., & Poulain, T. (2023) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph20021050 · Cited by 11
“Often, the consequences do not become apparent until adulthood [9].”
BackgroundPrevalence of Childhood Trauma in a Community-Based Mental Health Clinic
Sucich, J. T., Breitbart, V., Williams, S. Z., Sanichar, N., Candelaria-Arce, E., Frankle, W. G., & Davison-Duffy, S. (2023) · Community Mental Health Journal · doi:10.1007/s10597-023-01094-1 · Cited by 11
“We defined a high ACE score as 4 + based on evidence of a “dose response” relationship between ACE scores and mental health such that higher scores are associated with poorer outcomes (Felitti et al., 1998; Hughes et al., 2017; Zarse et al., 2019).”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialUsing Natural Language Processing to Identify Child Maltreatment in Health Systems
Negriff, S., Lynch, F. L., Cronkite, D. J., Pardee, R. E., & Penfold, R. (2023) · International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect · doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106090 · Cited by 14
Vahedi, L., Orjuela‐Grimm, M., Bhatt-Carreño, S., & Meyer, S. R. (2023) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0281961 · Cited by 13
Wiss, D. A., Prelip, M. L., Upchurch, D. M., Ehrenstein, O. S. V., Tomiyama, A. J., Gorbach, P. M., & SHOPTAW, S. J. (2023) · Journal of Urban Health · doi:10.1007/s11524-023-00719-w · Cited by 12
Health of children who experienced Australian immigration detention
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Adverse childhood experiences and sexual dysfunction in midlife women: Is there a link?
Saadedine, M., Faubion, S. S., Kingsberg, S. A., Enders, F., Kuhle, C. L., Kling, J. M., Mara, K. C., & Kapoor, E. (2023) · The Journal of Sexual Medicine · doi:10.1093/jsxmed/qdad053 · Cited by 15
Foster parents’ history of adverse childhood experiences, adult attachment, and parenting stress
Reisz, S., Aviles, A. I., & Adkins, T. (2023) · Children and Youth Services Review · doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107005 · Cited by 15
Short review on adverse childhood experiences, pelvic pain and endometriosis
Moussaoui, D., Joseph, K. E., & Grover, S. R. (2023) · Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction · doi:10.1016/j.jogoh.2023.102603 · Cited by 10
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“ACE Correlation, Clustering, and Dose Response Felitti et al. (1998) formulated their hypotheses from decades of research on childhood trauma and abuse.”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialMackle, T., Colodro‐Conde, L., de Dassel, T., Braun, A. N., Pope, A., Bennett, E. L., Kothari, A., Bruxner, G., Medland, S. E., & Patterson, S. (2023) · BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth · doi:10.1186/s12884-023-05714-2 · Cited by 11
“Historically, concerns have been expressed that ACE screening is invasive and may cause patient discomfort [5].”
BackgroundLoveday, S., Balgovind, M., Hall, T., Goldfeld, S. R., Sanci, L. A., & Hiscock, H. (2023) · Archives of Disease in Childhood · doi:10.1136/archdischild-2023-325473 · Cited by 12
The effect of childhood adversity on mental health in young adults: a longitudinal study
Villanueva, L., Adrián, J., & Pomares, A. G. (2023) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-023-04831-7 · Cited by 16
“…experiences are quite prevalent across childhood and adolescence: between 12% and 70% of children aged 0–6 years old have been exposed to three or more negative experiences The underlying mechanism for this link between ACEs and these negative outcomes is explained by Felitti et al.’s model (1998).”
InfluentialKraal, A. Z., Zaheed, A. B., Krasnova, A., Vadari, H. S., Byrd, D. R., & Zahodne, L. B. (2023) · Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society · doi:10.1017/s135561772300036x · Cited by 13
Jakubowski, D. M., Peterson, C. E., Sun, J., Hoskins, K. F., Rauscher, G. H., & Argos, M. (2023) · Women s Health · doi:10.1177/17455057231184325 · Cited by 13
Suicidality Among Syrian Refugee Children in Jordan
Dehnel, R., Dalky, H. F., Sudarsan, S., et al. (2023) · Community Mental Health Journal · doi:10.1007/s10597-023-01160-8 · Cited by 11
“By virtue of the refugee reality, refugee children have very high exposure rates to adverse childhood events (Felitti et al., 1998).”
BackgroundPolusny, M. A., Marquardt, C. A., Hubbling, M., Campbell, E. H., Arbisi, P. A., Davenport, N. D., Lim, K. O., Lissek, S. M., Schaefer, J. D., Sponheim, S. R., et al. (2023) · JMIR Research Protocols · doi:10.2196/51235 · Cited by 14
“✓ ✓ 17 Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire [62]j”
BackgroundThrough a Developmental Lens: Emerging Insights to Understand and Treat Pediatric PTSD
Russell, J. D., Heyn, S. A., & Herringa, R. J. (2023) · American Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.20230523 · Cited by 12
“This decision may have been motivated by the paucity of knowledge related to psychiatric symptoms among trauma-exposed children (1, 3), an area that has received expansive study in the four decades since (10–15).”
BackgroundVora, A. S., & Grilo, S. A. (2023) · Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities · doi:10.1007/s40615-023-01785-1 · Cited by 12
Bränn, E., Vaina, A., Daníelsdóttir, H. B., Thordardottir, E. B., Yang, Q., Jakobsdóttir, J., Aspelund, T., Hauksdóttir, A., Valdimarsdóttir, U. A., & Lu, D. (2023) · Archives of Women s Mental Health · doi:10.1007/s00737-023-01369-2 · Cited by 11
“Particularly those not included in the pioneer study by Felitti et al. (1998) (e.g., loss of parent or parental separation, community and collective violence and bullying) have been less studied although some are common adverse experiences in childhood (Modecki et al. 2014).”
BackgroundEarly life drought predicts components of adult body size in wild female baboons
Levy, E. J., Lee, A., Siodi, I. L., Helmich, E. C., McLean, E. M., Malone, E. J., Pickard, M. J., Ranjithkumar, R., Tung, J., Archie, E. A., et al. (2023) · American Journal of Biological Anthropology · doi:10.1002/ajpa.24849 · Cited by 11
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Alvarado, G., McBain, R. K., Chen, P. G., Estrada-Darley, I., Engel, C. C., Malika, N. M., Machtinger, E. L., McCaw, B. R., Thyne, S. M., Thompson, N., et al. (2023) · The Annals of Family Medicine · doi:10.1370/afm.3014 · Cited by 13
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“Importantly, the experience of multiple interpersonal adversities ˗often referred to as complex trauma exposure˗ leads to more severe and complex impairments across several areas of functioning (Cloitre et al., 2009; Felitti et al., 1998; Fischer et al., 2016; Kisiel et al., 2014).”
BackgroundSchwartz, J. A., Calvi, J. L., Allen, S. L., & Granger, D. A. (2023) · Evolutionary Psychology · doi:10.1177/14747049231212357 · Cited by 14
“Importantly, a signi fi cant number of studies examining ACEs, including the original CDC-Kaiser Permanente ACE study (Felitti et al., 1998), have reported that more than half of the individuals in their samples have experienced at least one ACE.”
BackgroundResultInfluentialIntimate Partner Violence and Other Trauma Exposures in Females With Traumatic Brain Injury
de Souza, N. L., Kumar, R. G., Pruyser, A., Blunt, E., Sanders, W., Meydan, A., Lawrence, P. K., Venkatesan, U. M., Donald, C. L. M., Hoffman, J. M., et al. (2023) · Journal of Neurotrauma · doi:10.1089/neu.2023.0225 · Cited by 14
“Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), such as abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction, 20 are associated with worse health outcomes 21 (e.g., depression, anxiety, PTSD 22,23 ) and predict an increased risk of physical IPV victimization in adulthood.”
Koenig, H. G., VanderWeele, T. J., & Peteet, J. R. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190088859.003.0001 · Cited by 12
Maternal Mental Health Diagnoses and Infant Emergency Department Use, Hospitalizations, and Death
Abe, N., Baer, R. J., Jelliffe‐Pawlowski, L. L., Chambers, C., & Bandoli, G. (2023) · Academic Pediatrics · doi:10.1016/j.acap.2023.11.021 · Cited by 12
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“At a population level, experiencing adversity early in childhood has been associated with long term mental and physical health morbidities [1, 2].”
Backgroundde Jongh, A., Hafkemeijer, L., Hofman, S., Slotema, K., & Hornsveld, H. K. (2024) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1331876 · Cited by 15
Adverse childhood experiences and unhealthy dietary behaviours in adulthood
Testa, A. M., Zhang, L., Jackson, D. B., Ganson, K. T., Raney, J. H., & Nagata, J. M. (2024) · Public Health Nutrition · doi:10.1017/s1368980024000144 · Cited by 17
“…showing that ACE are related to poorer-quality dietary behaviour in childhood (10,11) and adulthood (9,26) , and consistent with research showing that ACE operate in a dose – response manner, such that the concentration of health risk is greatest among those with four or more ACE (7,8,33) .”
ResultMerhi, D., Demou, E., & Niedzwiedz, C. L. (2024) · Journal of Child and Family Studies · doi:10.1007/s10826-023-02757-z · Cited by 17
Taylor, K., & Demakakos, P. (2024) · Child Abuse & Neglect · doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106653 · Cited by 11
The Influence of Childhood Trauma on Multiple Unhealthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Adulthood
Tong, L., Kuzminskaite, E., Hovens, J. G. F. M., Jeuring, H. W., Krause-Utz, A., Vinkers, C. H., & Penninx, B. W. J. H. (2024) · Journal of Aggression Maltreatment & Trauma · doi:10.1080/10926771.2024.2307380 · Cited by 13
Briere, J., Runtz, M., & Rodd, K. (2024) · Journal of Interpersonal Violence · doi:10.1177/08862605231225524 · Cited by 11
“…determined based on participants’ responses to the dichotomously scored childhood sexual abuse item of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Scale (ACES; Felitti et al., 1998), that is, “Did an adult or person at least 5 years older than you ever touch or fondle you or have you touch their body in a…”
BackgroundLeading Organizations From Burnout to Trauma-Informed Resilience: A Vital Paradigm Shift
Elisseou, S., Shamaskin‐Garroway, A., Kopstick, A. J., Potter, J. E., Weil, A., Gundacker, C., & Moreland-Capuia, A. R. (2024) · The Permanente Journal · doi:10.7812/tpp/23.110 · Cited by 12
Burback, L., Yap, S., Purdon, S. E., Abba‐Aji, A., O’Shea, K., Brémault‐Phillips, S., Greenshaw, A. J., & Winkler, O. (2024) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1361086 · Cited by 14
Winquist, A., Burduli, E., Eddy, L. L., Landis, T. T., Fraser, J., & Barbosa‐Leiker, C. (2024) · Journal of Clinical Nursing · doi:10.1111/jocn.17026 · Cited by 12
Slavin, A. Z., Fischer, I. C., & Pietrzak, R. H. (2024) · Journal of Psychiatric Research · doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.02.040 · Cited by 11
Trauma-Informed Care Training in Forensic Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review
Simjouw, A., de Vogel, V., & de Ruiter, C. (2024) · International Journal of Forensic Mental Health · doi:10.1080/14999013.2024.2323934 · Cited by 15
“When ACEs were first studied it was found that they were more prevalent than commonly acknowledged (Felitti et al., 1998).”
Baiden, P., Graaf, G., Okine, L., & LaBrenz, C. A. (2024) · Social Work in Public Health · doi:10.1080/19371918.2024.2323137 · Cited by 12
“…studies suggest that cumulative exposure to childhood adversities may be more detrimental on health than exposure to one stressor (Felitti, 2004; Felitti et al., 1998), as exposure to multiple types of adversities may result in frequent health service utilization compared with exposure to one…”
BackgroundTrajectories in depressive symptoms and midlife brain health
Dintica, C. S., Habes, M., Schreiner, P. J., Launer, L. J., & Yaffe, K. S. (2024) · Translational Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41398-024-02883-2 · Cited by 15
“We further adjusted for income, vascular factors (diabetes, smoking, BMI, heart conditions), and psychosocial factors (social network, and childhood environment).”
BackgroundJing, Z., & Ding, F. (2024) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2024.04.009 · Cited by 15
Buchanan, M., Newton‐Howes, G., Cunningham, R., McLeod, G. F. H., & Boden, J. M. (2024) · Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology · doi:10.1007/s00127-024-02674-6 · Cited by 16
“Consistent with previous literature [8, 48], the count score treats all adversity as equal regardless of the nature and timing of the exposures.”
BackgroundResultTobacco use, trauma exposure and PTSD: a systematic review
Shevorykin, A., Hyland, B. M., Robles, D., Ji, M., Vantucci, D., Bensch, L., Thorner, H., Marion, M., Liskiewicz, A., Carl, E. M., et al. (2024) · Health Psychology Review · doi:10.1080/17437199.2024.2330896 · Cited by 17
“The most frequently employed trauma exposure measures were study-speci fi c questions ( n = 34), the Adverse Childhood Experiences scale (Felitti et al., 1998) ( n = 10) and trauma exposure elements from the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (Foa, McLean, Zang, Zhong, Rauch, et al., 2016) ( n = 10).”
Schafer, E. S. (2024) · OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine · doi:10.21926/obm.icm.2402030 · Cited by 17
Yuan, M., He, Y., Wang, F., Wen, X., Tong, Y., Zhu, D., Wang, G., & Su, P. (2024) · Child Abuse & Neglect · doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106861 · Cited by 12
Peralta, V., de Jalón, E. G., Moreno-Izco, L., Peralta, D., Janda, L., Sánchez-Torres, A. M., Cuesta, M. J., & SEGPEPs group (2024) · Psychological Medicine · doi:10.1017/s0033291724001223 · Cited by 11
Character strengths and resilience in adolescence: a developmental perspective
Morris, A. S., Watrous, J. N. H., & Hays-Grudo, J. (2024) · The Journal of Positive Psychology · doi:10.1080/17439760.2024.2362430 · Cited by 15
“Since the seminal publication of the deleterious effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on adult physical and mental health (Felitti et al., 1998), researchers have intensified their efforts to explain the mechanisms and processes linking child and adolescent exposure to stress and…”
Metadata
- Authors
- Felitti, V. J., Anda, R. F., Nordenberg, D., Williamson, D. F., Spitz, A. M., Edwards, V., Koss, M. P., & Marks, J. S.
- Affiliations
- Kaiser Permanente (US)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Emory University (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- Corresponding author
- Felitti, Vincent J
- Venue
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1998-05
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 245-258
- ISSN
- 0749-3797 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2116839388
- Cited by
- 18,943
- References
- 97
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1615 · 2025: 1790 · 2024: 1720 · 2023: 1711 · 2022: 1648 · 2021: 1720 · 2020: 1565 · 2019: 1232 · 2018: 963 · 2017: 825 · 2016: 666 · 2015: 573 · 2014: 446 · 2013: 413 · 2012: 340
- FWCI
- 57.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (TS-44-10/12)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Keywords
- adverse childhood experiences, childhood abuse, household dysfunction, childhood emotional abuse, child physical abuse, child sexual abuse, alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, suicide attempts, smoking, sexually transmitted infections, obesity, physical inactivity, ischemic heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, liver disease, cumulative exposure, leading causes of death
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, California, Cause of Death, Child, Child Abuse, Family, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Surveys and Questionnaires, Risk Factors, Social Problems, Violence, Health Behavior, Logistic Models, Child of Impaired Parents, Domestic Violence
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