SynthesisBMC public health2020
Interventions to support people exposed to adverse childhood experiences: systematic review of systematic reviews.
Synthesis in BMC public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07118072 (Internet-Delivered Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation), which is not on this map. Cited by 58 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Internet-Delivered Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (i-STAIR) for Individuals With Adverse Childhood Experiences and Subsyndromal Depression: A Pilot Study
Who cites it
58 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 131 citations in OpenAlex.
- Adverse childhood experiences and risk of late-life dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of adverse childhood experiences on analgesia-related outcomes: a systematic review.British journal of anaesthesia · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions to Reduce Parental Substance Use, Domestic Violence and Mental Health Problems, and Their Impacts Upon Children's Well-Being: A Systematic Review of Reviews and Evidence Mapping.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Pooled it
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- Personalized Mobile Health-Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Maternal Distress: Examining the Moderating Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences.The Permanente journal · 2024Trial
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and HIV Prevalence Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Rural South Africa: The Role of Household and Community Violence.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Childhood adversity and trajectories of health and quality of life in Australian children and adolescents: a latent class analysis.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Using body mapping to explore perceptions of resilience with 7-12-year-old Muslim children in East London: A qualitative study.JCPP advances · 2026Article
- My Pathway to Healing (MP2H): a pilot randomized implementation trial to promote healing from the impacts of adverse childhood experiences, trauma, and suicide risk among Native American adults-trial rationale and protocol.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2026Article
- Barriers and facilitators to behavioral health follow-up in children screened and referred for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).BMC health services research · 2026Article
- The Circles of Resilience model: exploring how social and structural conditions foster child resilience in the context of ACEs.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Identifying and selecting outcome measures for the children and families domestic abuse core outcome set.Frontiers in sociology · 2026Article
- Safety Net Programs as Primary Prevention Against Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in the United States: Natural Experiments with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Adverse childhood experiences, and violence and criminal justice outcomes in adulthood-the moderating role of protective and compensatory childhood experiences.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Differential effects of childhood maltreatment types and timing on psychopathology in formerly out-of-home placed young adults.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Article
- Policy-level solutions to support families experiencing adverse childhood experiences.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- The Intersection of Neighborhood Environments, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Health Equity.Pediatrics · 2025Article
- Protective factors for adverse childhood experiences: Scoping review and evidence gap map.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of Adaptation of a Resilience-Building Intervention Among Individuals With Adverse Childhood Experience: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and its association with adverse childhood experiences among refugee and host-community children and adolescents in Jordan.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundAdverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) such as abuse, neglect or household adversity may have a range of serious negative impacts. There is a need to understand what interventions are effective to improve outcomes for people who have experienced ACEs.
methodsSystematic review of systematic reviews. We searched 18 database sources from 2007 to 2018 for systematic reviews of effectiveness data on people who experienced ACEs aged 3-18, on any intervention and any outcome except incidence of ACEs. We included reviews with a summary quality score (AMSTAR) of 5.5 or above.
resultsTwenty-five reviews were included. Most reviews focus on psychological interventions and mental health outcomes. The strongest evidence is for cognitive-behavioural therapy for people exposed to abuse. For other interventions - including psychological therapies, parent training, and broader support interventions - the findings overall are inconclusive, although there are some positive results.
conclusionsThere are significant gaps in the evidence on interventions for ACEs. Most approaches focus on mitigating individual psychological harms, and do not address the social pathways which may mediate the negative impacts of ACEs. Many negative impacts of ACEs (e.g. on health behaviours, social relationships and life circumstances) have also not been widely addressed by intervention studies.
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