Unpacking the impact of adverse childhood experiences on adult mental health
Melissa T. Merrick,Katie A. Ports,Derek C. Ford,Tracie O. Afifi,Elizabeth T. Gershoff,Andrew Grogan-Kaylor +5 more
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A graded dose-response relationship between an expanded ACE score that includes being spanked as a child and the likelihood of moderate to heavy drinking, drug use, depressed affect, and suicide attempts in adulthood is indicated.About:
This article is published in Child Abuse & Neglect.The article was published on 2017-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 469 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mental health & Child abuse.read more
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Increasing physical activity among young children from disadvantaged communities: Study protocol of a group randomised controlled effectiveness trial
Rebecca M Stanley,Rachel A. Jones,Dylan P. Cliff,Stewart G. Trost,Donna Berthelsen,Jo Salmon,Marijka Batterham,Simon Eckermann,John J. Reilly,Ngiare Brown,Karen J. Mickle,Steven J Howard,Trina Hinkley,Xanne Janssen,Paul Chandler,Penny L Cross,Fay L Gowers,Anthony D. Okely +17 more
TL;DR: If shown to be efficacious, the Jump Start approach can be expected to have implications for early childhood education and care policies and practices, and ultimately a positive effect on the health and development across the life course.
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Practitioner Review: Twenty years of research with adverse childhood experience scores - Advantages, disadvantages and applications to practice.
Rebecca E. Lacey,Helen Minnis +1 more
TL;DR: A more critical view of their conceptualisation, measurement, and application to practice settings is urgently needed and new ways of conceptualising and measuring ACEs that incorporate this new knowledge could be helpful for clinicians, practitioners, patients and the public.
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Associations of adverse childhood experiences and suicidal behaviors in adulthood in a U.S. nationally representative sample.
TL;DR: Intervention strategies need to prevent adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) from occurring and, if they do occur, should take into account the impact of cumulative ACEs on suicide risk.
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Is the psychological impact of exposure to COVID-19 stronger in adolescents with pre-pandemic maltreatment experiences? A survey of rural Chinese adolescents.
TL;DR: It is suggested that when exposed to COVID-19 rural adolescents should get prioritized professional family support and mental health counseling in particular when they have experienced family abuse and neglect in childhood, even though such support is more difficult to organize in rural areas.
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Stress begets stress: the association of adverse childhood experiences with psychological distress in the presence of adult life stress.
TL;DR: The prevalence of ACEs in this young adult population is high, similar to other studies in young adult populations, and a significant direct association exists between ACEs and psychological distress.
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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
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David P. Bernstein,Judith A. Stein,Michael D. Newcomb,Edward A. Walker,David L. Pogge,Taruna Ahluvalia,John M. Stokes,Leonard Handelsman,Martha A. Medrano,David P. Desmond,William A. Zule +10 more
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The Lifelong Effects of Early Childhood Adversity and Toxic Stress
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Childhood Abuse, Household Dysfunction, and the Risk of Attempted Suicide Throughout the Life Span Findings From the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
Shanta R. Dube,Robert F. Anda,Vincent J. Felitti,Daniel P. Chapman,David F. Williamson,Wayne H. Giles +5 more
TL;DR: A powerful graded relationship exists between adverse childhood experiences and risk of attempted suicide throughout the life span, and alcoholism, depressed affect, and illicit drug use, which are strongly associated with such experiences, appear to partially mediate this relationship.