Prevalence, type, and related factors of adverse childhood experiences among community mental health outreach users: A four-year retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been reported to have a detrimental impact on future mental health. However, limited research exists on how mental health staff perceive service users' ACEs. This study examined the prevalence, types, and related factor of staff-perceived ACEs among community outreach service users using 4-year retrospective data.

Methods

In this retrospective study conducted using service records from the mental health outreach service in Japan, we collected demographic and clinical characteristics, as well as the number and types of ACEs perceived by staff at six assessment points, from registration to 4 years post-service initiation. We compared each clinical characteristic between groups with and without staff-perceived ACEs using independent

SUBMITTER: Usui K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12447658 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature