Validation of the Assessment of Parent and Child Adversity (APCA) in Mothers and Young Children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Advancing understanding of how early adversity arises, manifests, and contributes to health difficulties depends on accurate measurement of children's experiences. In early life, exposure to adversity is often intertwined with that of one's caregivers. We present preliminary psychometric properties of a novel measure of adversity, the Assessment of Parent and Child Adversity (APCA), which simultaneously characterizes parents' and children's adversity.

Methods

During pregnancy, women reported their past adverse experiences. When their children were ages 3-5 years (47% female), 97 mothers (71% White, 17% Hispanic/Latinx) completed the APCA, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, and the Benevolent Childhood Experiences scale. They reported their current symptoms of depr

SUBMITTER: King LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9626394 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature