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ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2023

Unpacking the Impact of Early Adverse Childhood Experiences on Early Onset of Sexual Intercourse Among an Urban Birth Cohort of Early Adolescents.

Xiaoyan Zhang, Qingyang Liu, Xiafei Wang, Sara A Vasilenko

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Article in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xiaoyan ZhangStanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California. Electronic address: xiaoyanz@stanford.edu.
Qingyang LiuDepartment of Human Development and Family Science, David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Xiafei WangSchool of Social Work, David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Sara A VasilenkoDepartment of Human Development and Family Science, David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Syracuse University · USStanford Medicine · US

Funding

Fragile Families and the Transition to AdulthoodR01HD036916 · NICHD · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI Kathryn Edin, Jane Waldfogel · 1999 to 2026
$46.3M
ECONOMIC STATUS, PUBLIC POLICY, AND CHILD NEGLECTR01HD039135 · NICHD · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI PAXSON, CHRISTINA H · 2000 to 2004
$3.1M
Child Care and Parental Employment in Fragile FamiliesR01HD040421 · NICHD · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE · PI BROOKS-GUNN, JEANNE · 2002 to 2006
$2.8M
Multilevel risk profiles and reproductive health across adolescence and young adulthood.R03HD096101 · NICHD · SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY · PI VASILENKO, SARA A. · 2019 to 2020
$161k
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD036916NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD039135NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD040421NICHD NIH HHS R03 HD096101
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeEarly adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) predict early onset of sexual intercourse. However, patterns of ACEs identified using latent class analysis (LCA) and their links to early sexual intercourse have been less examined. In this study, we apply LCA to identify ACEs profiles at age five and to examine whether these profiles differentially predict adolescents' sexual initiation.

methodsWe analyzed data obtained from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study for 3,185 participants (male = 1,638; female = 1,547). This included parental/caregivers' reports of 10 types of ACEs when participants were on average at age five and youth self-report data on sexual intercourse before or at age 15. We used LCA to classify the participants into subgroups and multinomial logistic regressions to examine differences in early sexual initiation among the ACEs subgroups.

resultsLCA showed evidence of four classes for both genders: low adversity (51.8%), socioeconomic adversity (32.0%), family dysfunction (12.0%), and abuse (4.2%). We found class membership differences in early sexual intercourse in all three adversity classes compared to the low adversity group. Pairwise comparison tests further revealed that adolescents in the family dysfunction class had lesser odds of engaging in early sexual intercourse than their counterparts in the socioeconomic adversity and abuse classes. DISCUSSION: Our findings suggest that LCA could help identify meaningful and distinctive child adversity patterns while accounting for the co-occurrence of ACEs. This is particularly helpful in evaluating who might be at greatest health risk which can further inform more effective and targeted interventions.

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Adverse Childhood ExperiencesChild AbuseAdolescentBirth CohortChildCoitusFemaleHumansMaleSexual BehaviorAdverse childhood experiencesChild abuseDepressionLatent class analysisLife history traitsLow income populationPovertyReproductive behaviorSexual behaviorViolence

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