National household survey of adverse childhood experiences and their relationship with resilience to health-harming behaviors in England.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Epidemiological and biomedical evidence link adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with health-harming behaviors and the development of non-communicable disease in adults. Investment in interventions to improve early life experiences requires empirical evidence on levels of childhood adversity and the proportion of HHBs potentially avoided should such adversity be addressed.

Methods

A nationally representative survey of English residents aged 18 to 69 (n = 3,885) was undertaken during the period April to July 2013. Individuals were categorized according to the number of ACEs experienced. Modeling identified the proportions of HHBs (early sexual initiation, unintended teenage pregnancy, smoking, binge drinking, drug use, violence victimization, violence perpetration

SUBMITTER: Bellis MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4234527 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature