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Adverse Childhood Experiences in Mexico: Prevalence and Association with Sociodemographic Variables and Health Status

BACKGROUND: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) refer to a semantic field of negative childhood events that, in conjunction with insufficient personal, family, or contextual coping resources, have the potential of becoming traumatic. OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experien...

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Autores principales: Sánchez-Jáuregui, Teresa, Téllez, Arnoldo, Almaraz, Diana, Valdez, Arturo, Hinojosa-Fernández, Rogelio, García-Balvaneda, Hugo, Juárez-García, Dehisy Marisol
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Publicado: Russian Psychological Society 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10567057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37830078
http://dx.doi.org/10.11621/pir.2023.0204
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author Sánchez-Jáuregui, Teresa
Téllez, Arnoldo
Almaraz, Diana
Valdez, Arturo
Hinojosa-Fernández, Rogelio
García-Balvaneda, Hugo
Juárez-García, Dehisy Marisol
author_facet Sánchez-Jáuregui, Teresa
Téllez, Arnoldo
Almaraz, Diana
Valdez, Arturo
Hinojosa-Fernández, Rogelio
García-Balvaneda, Hugo
Juárez-García, Dehisy Marisol
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description BACKGROUND: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) refer to a semantic field of negative childhood events that, in conjunction with insufficient personal, family, or contextual coping resources, have the potential of becoming traumatic. OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their association with sociodemographic variables and physical and mental illnesses in a Mexican sample. DESIGN: A cross-sectional design was used. The sample included 917 Mexican adults who responded to the Adverse Childhood Experiences International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ). Most of the participants were female (79.3%) with an average age of 37 years, a monthly income between 500 and 2,500 USD (59.2%), had completed university education (45.6%) and were married or in a common-law marriage (53.1%). Data was collected through Google Forms, and the link to the form was shared through electronic social networks. RESULTS: A total of 48.3% of the participants presented seven to nine types of ACEs. Among their responses, the most prevalent categories were emotional neglect (95.1%), family violence (83.3%), and emotional abuse (78.6%). A significant association was found between the number of ACEs and the mental illness diagnosis (x(2)(20) = 15.16; p<001). Women were found to report more experiences of sexual abuse (z = -6.62, p<. 001), whereas men reported more experiences of community violence (z= -4.27, p < .001) and collective violence (z = -3.94, p<.001). CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of ACEs in the Mexican population is high. However, men and women reported differences in certain types of ACEs. It was found that people with a diagnosis and family history of mental illnesses presented a higher number of ACE categories.
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spelling pubmed-105670572023-10-12 Adverse Childhood Experiences in Mexico: Prevalence and Association with Sociodemographic Variables and Health Status Sánchez-Jáuregui, Teresa Téllez, Arnoldo Almaraz, Diana Valdez, Arturo Hinojosa-Fernández, Rogelio García-Balvaneda, Hugo Juárez-García, Dehisy Marisol Psychol Russ Clinical Psychology BACKGROUND: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) refer to a semantic field of negative childhood events that, in conjunction with insufficient personal, family, or contextual coping resources, have the potential of becoming traumatic. OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their association with sociodemographic variables and physical and mental illnesses in a Mexican sample. DESIGN: A cross-sectional design was used. The sample included 917 Mexican adults who responded to the Adverse Childhood Experiences International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ). Most of the participants were female (79.3%) with an average age of 37 years, a monthly income between 500 and 2,500 USD (59.2%), had completed university education (45.6%) and were married or in a common-law marriage (53.1%). Data was collected through Google Forms, and the link to the form was shared through electronic social networks. RESULTS: A total of 48.3% of the participants presented seven to nine types of ACEs. Among their responses, the most prevalent categories were emotional neglect (95.1%), family violence (83.3%), and emotional abuse (78.6%). A significant association was found between the number of ACEs and the mental illness diagnosis (x(2)(20) = 15.16; p<001). Women were found to report more experiences of sexual abuse (z = -6.62, p<. 001), whereas men reported more experiences of community violence (z= -4.27, p < .001) and collective violence (z = -3.94, p<.001). CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of ACEs in the Mexican population is high. However, men and women reported differences in certain types of ACEs. It was found that people with a diagnosis and family history of mental illnesses presented a higher number of ACE categories. Russian Psychological Society 2023-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10567057/ /pubmed/37830078 http://dx.doi.org/10.11621/pir.2023.0204 Text en © Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The journal content is licensed with CC BY-NC “Attribution-NonCommercial” Creative Commons license.
spellingShingle Clinical Psychology
Sánchez-Jáuregui, Teresa
Téllez, Arnoldo
Almaraz, Diana
Valdez, Arturo
Hinojosa-Fernández, Rogelio
García-Balvaneda, Hugo
Juárez-García, Dehisy Marisol
Adverse Childhood Experiences in Mexico: Prevalence and Association with Sociodemographic Variables and Health Status
title Adverse Childhood Experiences in Mexico: Prevalence and Association with Sociodemographic Variables and Health Status
title_full Adverse Childhood Experiences in Mexico: Prevalence and Association with Sociodemographic Variables and Health Status
title_fullStr Adverse Childhood Experiences in Mexico: Prevalence and Association with Sociodemographic Variables and Health Status
title_full_unstemmed Adverse Childhood Experiences in Mexico: Prevalence and Association with Sociodemographic Variables and Health Status
title_short Adverse Childhood Experiences in Mexico: Prevalence and Association with Sociodemographic Variables and Health Status
title_sort adverse childhood experiences in mexico: prevalence and association with sociodemographic variables and health status
topic Clinical Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10567057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37830078
http://dx.doi.org/10.11621/pir.2023.0204
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