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Associations Between Childhood Trauma and the Age of First-Time Drug Use in Methamphetamine-Dependent Patients

Childhood trauma is related to substance use disorder; however, few studies have examined the relationship between childhood trauma and the age at which the drug was first used. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between childhood trauma and the age of first-time drug use amon...

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Autores principales: Huang, Cui, Yuan, Qiuyu, Zhang, Ling, Wang, Lei, Cui, Shu, Zhang, Kai, Zhou, Xiaoqin
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8044866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33868060
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.658205
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author Huang, Cui
Yuan, Qiuyu
Zhang, Ling
Wang, Lei
Cui, Shu
Zhang, Kai
Zhou, Xiaoqin
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Yuan, Qiuyu
Zhang, Ling
Wang, Lei
Cui, Shu
Zhang, Kai
Zhou, Xiaoqin
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description Childhood trauma is related to substance use disorder; however, few studies have examined the relationship between childhood trauma and the age at which the drug was first used. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between childhood trauma and the age of first-time drug use among methamphetamine-dependent patients. Moreover, we analyzed the characteristics of adverse family environment associated with severe childhood trauma and the risk factors for starting drugs in minors. A baseline interview was conducted with 110 participants who were in detoxification, including demographic information, past substance use, and age of first-time drug use. The participants' childhood trauma experience before 18 years of age was evaluated using the simplified version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-SF). The Chinese version of the Family Environment Scale (FES-CV) was used to assess the family environment of methamphetamine-dependent patients. Among 110 non-injecting methamphetamine-dependent patients, nearly half (n = 48, 43.6%) had moderate and severe childhood trauma. Correlation analysis showed that the age of first-time drug use negatively correlated with emotional abuse (r = −0.32, p < 0.01) and physical abuse (r = −0.27, p < 0.01). The age of first-time drug use negatively correlated with conflict (r = −0.20, p < 0.05) and independence (r = −0.22, p < 0.05) of family environment, but positively correlated with intellectual-cultural orientation (r = 0.28, p < 0.01). Additionally, childhood trauma factors significantly correlated with many indexes of family environment, especially cohesion (r = −0.45, p < 0.01), conflict (r = 0.49, p < 0.01), and independence (r = 0.33, p < 0.01). Additionally, the regression model showed that when emotional abuse increased by one point, the age of first-time drug use was 0.69 years earlier. These findings suggest that a detrimental family environment can aggravate childhood trauma, and the experience of childhood emotional or physical abuse may be an effective predictor of early drug use among methamphetamine-dependent patients.
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spelling pubmed-80448662021-04-15 Associations Between Childhood Trauma and the Age of First-Time Drug Use in Methamphetamine-Dependent Patients Huang, Cui Yuan, Qiuyu Zhang, Ling Wang, Lei Cui, Shu Zhang, Kai Zhou, Xiaoqin Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Childhood trauma is related to substance use disorder; however, few studies have examined the relationship between childhood trauma and the age at which the drug was first used. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between childhood trauma and the age of first-time drug use among methamphetamine-dependent patients. Moreover, we analyzed the characteristics of adverse family environment associated with severe childhood trauma and the risk factors for starting drugs in minors. A baseline interview was conducted with 110 participants who were in detoxification, including demographic information, past substance use, and age of first-time drug use. The participants' childhood trauma experience before 18 years of age was evaluated using the simplified version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-SF). The Chinese version of the Family Environment Scale (FES-CV) was used to assess the family environment of methamphetamine-dependent patients. Among 110 non-injecting methamphetamine-dependent patients, nearly half (n = 48, 43.6%) had moderate and severe childhood trauma. Correlation analysis showed that the age of first-time drug use negatively correlated with emotional abuse (r = −0.32, p < 0.01) and physical abuse (r = −0.27, p < 0.01). The age of first-time drug use negatively correlated with conflict (r = −0.20, p < 0.05) and independence (r = −0.22, p < 0.05) of family environment, but positively correlated with intellectual-cultural orientation (r = 0.28, p < 0.01). Additionally, childhood trauma factors significantly correlated with many indexes of family environment, especially cohesion (r = −0.45, p < 0.01), conflict (r = 0.49, p < 0.01), and independence (r = 0.33, p < 0.01). Additionally, the regression model showed that when emotional abuse increased by one point, the age of first-time drug use was 0.69 years earlier. These findings suggest that a detrimental family environment can aggravate childhood trauma, and the experience of childhood emotional or physical abuse may be an effective predictor of early drug use among methamphetamine-dependent patients. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8044866/ /pubmed/33868060 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.658205 Text en Copyright © 2021 Huang, Yuan, Zhang, Wang, Cui, Zhang and Zhou. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Huang, Cui
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Zhang, Ling
Wang, Lei
Cui, Shu
Zhang, Kai
Zhou, Xiaoqin
Associations Between Childhood Trauma and the Age of First-Time Drug Use in Methamphetamine-Dependent Patients
title Associations Between Childhood Trauma and the Age of First-Time Drug Use in Methamphetamine-Dependent Patients
title_full Associations Between Childhood Trauma and the Age of First-Time Drug Use in Methamphetamine-Dependent Patients
title_fullStr Associations Between Childhood Trauma and the Age of First-Time Drug Use in Methamphetamine-Dependent Patients
title_full_unstemmed Associations Between Childhood Trauma and the Age of First-Time Drug Use in Methamphetamine-Dependent Patients
title_short Associations Between Childhood Trauma and the Age of First-Time Drug Use in Methamphetamine-Dependent Patients
title_sort associations between childhood trauma and the age of first-time drug use in methamphetamine-dependent patients
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8044866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33868060
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.658205
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