Publications by authors named "Hang Heather Do"
Article Synopsis
- Childhood maltreatment significantly increases the risk of homelessness, with individuals who experienced maltreatment being twice as likely to report homelessness in adulthood compared to those without such histories.
- The study tracked psychiatric symptoms (like depression and PTSD) over time, finding that these symptoms help explain the relationship between childhood maltreatment and future homelessness.
- Key psychiatric issues identified—depression, PTSD, and antisocial personality disorder—emphasize the need for targeted interventions for those with histories of childhood maltreatment to reduce homelessness risk.
Childhood maltreatment is associated with a range of negative social and psychological outcomes at different developmental stages. Using data from a prospective longitudinal study of the consequences of childhood maltreatment, we examine whether childhood maltreatment predicts lower levels of social connectedness and more depression symptoms over a 30-year time period and examine the directionality of the trajectories from childhood into middle adulthood. Children (ages 0-11 years) with documented histories of maltreatment and demographically matched controls were followed into adulthood across four waves: 1989-1995 ( = 1,196; = 29.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChildhood Maltreatment and Biological Aging in Middle Adulthood: The Role of Psychiatric Symptoms.
Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci
September 2024
Background: Childhood maltreatment and psychiatric morbidity have each been associated with accelerated biological aging primarily through cross-sectional studies. Using data from a prospective longitudinal study of individuals with histories of childhood maltreatment and control participants followed into midlife, we tested 2 hypotheses examining whether 1) psychiatric symptoms mediate the relationship between childhood maltreatment and biological aging and 2) psychiatric symptoms of anxiety, depression, or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) act in conjunction with childhood maltreatment to exacerbate the association of child maltreatment to aging.
Methods: Children (ages 0-11 years) with documented histories of maltreatment and demographically matched control children were followed into adulthood ( = 607) and interviewed over several waves of the study.