Adverse childhood experiences-household stressors and children's mental health: a single centre retrospective review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the prevalence of reported 'household stressor' adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in families of children presenting with neurodevelopmental, behavioural or emotional difficulties and to determine whether family vulnerabilities, individually or cumulatively, were associated with particular clinical symptomatology.

Design

Retrospective chart review followed by statistical analysis of family stressors and clinical symptomatology.

Setting

A community paediatric clinic in Australia.

Participants

All 267 children who attended an initial paediatric appointment during 2018.

Results

162 (60.7%) children had been exposed to one or more household stressor ACEs, including 116 (43.4%) children exposed to parental mental illness. Behavioural

SUBMITTER: Holmes H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8372878 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature