Pediatric ACEs and related life event screener (PEARLS) latent domains and child health in a safety-net primary care practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research examining the connections between individual adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and how groupings of interrelated adversities are linked with subsequent health is scarce, limiting our understanding of risk during a period of rapid expansion of ACE screening in clinical practice. The study objective was to conduct a psychometric analysis to derive latent domains of ACEs and related life events and assess the association between each domain and health outcome.

Methods

Participants (3 months-11 years) were recruited from the University of California San Francisco Benioff's Children Hospital Oakland Primary Care Clinic. Children were screened with the Pediatric ACEs and Related Life Events Screener (PEARLS) (n = 340), which assessed 17 total ACEs and relate

SUBMITTER: Ye M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10351141 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature