ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2018
Screening for childhood adversity: the what and when of identifying individuals at risk for lifespan health disparities.
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- Evidence for Revising the Adverse Childhood Experiences Screening Tool: a Scoping Review.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2022Article
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- Relationship between adverse childhood experiences and perceived discrimination in adulthood.Journal of affective disorders · 2020Article
- The differential impact of adverse childhood experiences in the development of pre-diabetes in a longitudinal cohort of US adults.Journal of diabetes and its complications · 2018Article
- Childhood adversity from conception onwards: are our tools unnecessarily hindering us?Journal of behavioral medicine · 2018Article
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Existing research on childhood adversity and health risk across the lifespan lacks specificity regarding which types of exposures to assess and when. The purpose of this study was to contribute to an empirically-supported framework to guide practitioners interested in identifying youth who may be at greatest risk for a lifelong trajectory of health disparities. We also sought to identify the point in childhood at which screening for adversity exposure would capture the largest group of at risk individuals for triage to prevention and intervention services. Participants (n = 4036) collected as part of the Midlife in the United States study reported their medical status and history including physical (cardiovascular disease, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, cancer) and mental health (depression, substance use problems, sleep problems). Participants indicated whether they were exposed to 7 adversities at any point in childhood and their age of exposure to 19 additional lifetime adversities before the age of 18. Parent drug abuse, dropping out or failing out of school, being fired from a job, and sexual assault during childhood exhibited the largest effect sizes on health in adulthood, which were comparable to the effects of childhood maltreatment. Childhood adversity screening in early adolescence may identify the largest proportion of youth at risk for negative health trajectories. The results of this descriptive analysis provide an empirical framework to guide screening for childhood adversity in pediatric populations. We discuss the implications of these observations in the context of prevention science and practice.
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