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Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Stress among the Community-based Urban Pediatric Population in Korea

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to investigate the impact of exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and stress among the community-based urban pediatric population in Korea. METHODS: In 2017, the analysis was conducted on 3,937 children and adolescents in an urban area in Korea based on the i...

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Autores principales: Lee, Mi-Sun, Kim, Hyun-Soo, Bhang, Soo-Young
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7769697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33372423
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e421
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Kim, Hyun-Soo
Bhang, Soo-Young
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description BACKGROUND: This study aimed to investigate the impact of exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and stress among the community-based urban pediatric population in Korea. METHODS: In 2017, the analysis was conducted on 3,937 children and adolescents in an urban area in Korea based on the impact of actual traumatic experience, addiction, and mental health. The respondents were excluded if they were missing data on the survey, resulting in a final sample size of 3,556. The collected data were analyzed by applying cross-sectional and correlation analyses. RESULTS: Among the respondents in the study group (mean age = 13.77), 43.1% were boys (n = 1,532) and 56.9% were girls (n = 2,024). Overall, 23.5% (n = 835) reported at least one ACE and 1.8% (n = 63) reported experiencing four or more ACEs. Emotional abuse (13.2%) was the most commonly reported ACE, followed by abandonment (7.7%) and physical abuse (7.5%). Self-reported measures of stress were associated with the ACE scores. CONCLUSION: This is the first study of self-reported ACEs from a community-based pediatric population in Korea. We found that the number of the students revealed more than one ACEs was similar to the data in the US community study with self-reporting among the community samples and exposure to adverse experiences is highly correlated with various stress responses.
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spelling pubmed-77696972021-01-04 Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Stress among the Community-based Urban Pediatric Population in Korea Lee, Mi-Sun Kim, Hyun-Soo Bhang, Soo-Young J Korean Med Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: This study aimed to investigate the impact of exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and stress among the community-based urban pediatric population in Korea. METHODS: In 2017, the analysis was conducted on 3,937 children and adolescents in an urban area in Korea based on the impact of actual traumatic experience, addiction, and mental health. The respondents were excluded if they were missing data on the survey, resulting in a final sample size of 3,556. The collected data were analyzed by applying cross-sectional and correlation analyses. RESULTS: Among the respondents in the study group (mean age = 13.77), 43.1% were boys (n = 1,532) and 56.9% were girls (n = 2,024). Overall, 23.5% (n = 835) reported at least one ACE and 1.8% (n = 63) reported experiencing four or more ACEs. Emotional abuse (13.2%) was the most commonly reported ACE, followed by abandonment (7.7%) and physical abuse (7.5%). Self-reported measures of stress were associated with the ACE scores. CONCLUSION: This is the first study of self-reported ACEs from a community-based pediatric population in Korea. We found that the number of the students revealed more than one ACEs was similar to the data in the US community study with self-reporting among the community samples and exposure to adverse experiences is highly correlated with various stress responses. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2020-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7769697/ /pubmed/33372423 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e421 Text en © 2020 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Stress among the Community-based Urban Pediatric Population in Korea
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title_fullStr Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Stress among the Community-based Urban Pediatric Population in Korea
title_full_unstemmed Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Stress among the Community-based Urban Pediatric Population in Korea
title_short Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Stress among the Community-based Urban Pediatric Population in Korea
title_sort exposure to adverse childhood experiences (aces) and stress among the community-based urban pediatric population in korea
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7769697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33372423
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e421
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