ArticleEClinicalMedicine2021
Secondary analysis of retrospective and prospective reports of adverse childhood experiences and mental health in young adulthood: Filtered through recent stressors.
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- Injury, illness, and emotion: A review of the motivational continuum from trauma through recovery from an ecological perspective.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2023Review
- Adverse childhood experiences on internet gaming disorder mediated through insomnia in Chinese young people.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Exploring the national prevalence of mental health risk, multimorbidity and the associations thereof: a repeated cross-sectional panel study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundEvidence has identified the detrimental effects that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have on outcomes across the life course. We assess associations between prospective and retrospective ACEs and mental health in young adulthood and the influence of recent stressors.
methodsSecondary analysis of a sample of 1592 young adults from the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort, from 1990 to 2013, were assessed throughout their first 18 years for prospective ACEs. Retrospective ACEs and an assessment of mental health were collected at the 22-23-year data point.
findingsProspective physical and sexual abuse are associated with an increased risk of depression (OR 1·7 [95% CI 1·37-1·93,
interpretationBoth individual and combined retrospective and prospective ACEs are related to mental health in young adulthood. Recent stressors reinforce this relationship; the likelihood of those who report more ACEs experiencing psychological distress increases when adjusting for recent stressors.
fundingWellcome Trust (UK), South African Medical Research Council, Human Sciences Research Council, University of the Witwatersrand and supported by the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development.
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