Publications by authors named "Helle Stangeland"
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- The study investigated how childhood trauma, particularly interpersonal violence, influences the development of psychiatric disorders in young people over a period of 13-15 years.
- About 24.3% of the adolescents studied were diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder by the time they reached young adulthood, with a strong link between childhood trauma exposure and various psychiatric conditions.
- The results highlight the urgency of incorporating insights about childhood trauma into mental health services for youth to improve prevention and treatment strategies.
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- Opioid and nonopioid analgesics are often prescribed to teenagers and young adults, but even short-term use can increase the risk of future misuse, especially for opioids.
- A study linked childhood trauma experiences with higher rates of analgesic prescriptions, finding that adolescents exposed to trauma had significantly increased prescription rates, particularly for sexual abuse and physical violence.
- The findings highlight the need for a trauma-informed approach in pain management to ensure safe and effective treatment strategies, as trauma survivors may have a higher pain symptom load and are at increased risk for misuse of prescription medications.
Problematic alcohol use (PAU) severely impacts the health, functioning, and long-term prospects of young people. Prior research indicates that childhood trauma exposure may be an important risk factor for PAU, but few longitudinal studies have looked at how specific trauma types influence this risk. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between childhood trauma exposure and PAU in a large, population-based cohort of young people.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFrequent and increasing use of over-the-counter analgesics (OTCA) is a public health concern. Pain conditions and psychological distress are related to frequent OTCA use, and as exposure to potentially traumatic events (PTE) in childhood appears to increase risk of experiencing such symptoms, we aimed to assess childhood PTEs and related symptoms in adolescence as predictors for frequent OTCA use in young adulthood. Prospective population survey data were used (n = 2947, 59.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Pain-related fear, anxiety, and avoidance may play key roles in the chronification of pain and related disability. For practitioners, knowledge about the source or drivers of these fears, including patients' exposure to potentially traumatic events (PTEs) and related posttraumatic stress symptoms, could be particularly helpful in guiding their treatment approach.
Objectives: We aimed to investigate whether the use of a brief screening for PTEs could help inform chronic pain treatment.
The ongoing opioid epidemic has been a global concern for years, increasingly due to its heavy toll on young people's lives and prospects. Few studies have investigated trends in use of the wider range of drugs prescribed to alleviate pain, psychological distress and insomnia in children, adolescents and young adults. Our aim was to study dispensation as a proxy for use of prescription analgesics, anxiolytics and hypnotics across age groups (0-29 years) and sex over the last 15 years in a large, representative general population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA preregistered systematic review of poststroke psychosis examining clinical characteristics, prevalence, diagnostic procedures, lesion location, treatments, risk factors and outcome. Neuropsychiatric outcomes following stroke are common and severely impact quality of life. No previous reviews have focused on poststroke psychosis despite clear clinical need.
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