Background: Childhood trauma is widespread and contributes to clinical, behavioral, and social health consequences. Despite more than 2 decades of research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kaiser Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study, ACEs science is still not fully integrated into medical school curricula. Therefore, we conducted a pilot study to assess the level of awareness about ACEs and trauma-informed care (TIC) curricula among medical students.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at the Medical College of Georgia using a sample of convenience. Enrolled first-, second-, and third-year students were invited to complete a survey during the Spring 2020 semester. A total of 194 students responded to specific questions about training on and knowledge of ACEs and principles of TIC.
Results: The majority of students (80%) indicated they heard of the ACEs Study, and 70% reported they received information about ACEs. Regarding TIC, findings indicated less knowledge on cultural context related to stress and trauma. In addition, first-year students were less likely to know about TIC principles than third-year students.
Conclusion: This preliminary study is the first of its kind in the state of Georgia, where recent surveillance data indicate that 60% of adults have experienced at least one ACE. Given that ACEs are widespread, effective educational practices to increase knowledge about ACEs science, and skills to carry out TIC practices may benefit future practicing physicians by introducing ACEs in the first-year curriculum.
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Child Abuse Negl
January 2025
School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership, University of Washington, Tacoma, WA, United States.
Backgrounds: Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is associated with adverse neurobiological, developmental, cognitive, behavioral, psychological, and social consequences among children and adolescents. Psychosocial interventions hold promise for mitigating the negative impacts of ACEs, but there is a lack of updated and comprehensive evidence summarizing their effects qualitatively and quantitatively.
Aims: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of existing evidence on the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions on children's outcomes, including internalizing and externalizing problems.
Nat Methods
January 2025
Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Teravoxel-scale, cellular-resolution images of cleared rodent brains acquired with light-sheet fluorescence microscopy have transformed the way we study the brain. Realizing the potential of this technology requires computational pipelines that generalize across experimental protocols and map neuronal activity at the laminar and subpopulation-specific levels, beyond atlas-defined regions. Here, we present artficial intelligence-based cartography of ensembles (ACE), an end-to-end pipeline that employs three-dimensional deep learning segmentation models and advanced cluster-wise statistical algorithms, to enable unbiased mapping of local neuronal activity and connectivity.
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January 2025
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University.
Objective: To examine the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and intimate partner violence (IPV) among married couples in Nepal as well as the relationships among ACEs, IPV (psychological, sexual, physical), and psychological distress.
Method: The sample comprised the control group ( = 720) of a cluster randomized intervention trial among married women in Nepal. Interviewers assessed ACEs, IPV, quality of life, self-efficacy, and depressive symptoms among participants.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry
January 2025
Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Background: This longitudinal study with multi-informant (maternal, paternal, and experimenter) and multimethod (questionnaires, behavioral observations, and standardized assessments) data tests an intergenerational model from mothers' adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to their children's socio-emotional and cognitive outcomes.
Methods: Participants were 501 children (50.7% male) and caregivers (56.
Child Abuse Negl
January 2025
School of Nursing, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China; Women and Children Medical Research Center, Department of Nursing, Foshan Women and Children Hospital, Foshan, Guangdong, China. Electronic address:
Background: Women are more prone to experience adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), placing them at higher risk of postpartum mental health disorders. However, research on ACEs, particularly their association with postpartum Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in non-Western contexts, is limited.
Objective: To utilize a cumulative risk approach and latent class analysis (LCA) to operationalize ACEs among postpartum women in China and examine their association with postpartum PTSD.
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