Adverse Childhood Experiences, Depression, Resilience, & Spirituality in African-American Adolescents
| Autor: | Kimberly Kay Lopez, Melissa F. Peskin, Kimberly Johnson-Baker, Vanessa Schick, Robert C. Addy, Jamie Freeny, Robert O. Morgan, Paula M Cuccaro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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African american
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Public health media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Logistic regression 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Increased risk 030225 pediatrics Spirituality Emergency Medicine medicine Original Article 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychological resilience Adverse Childhood Experiences business Depression (differential diagnoses) 050104 developmental & child psychology Clinical psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | J Child Adolesc Trauma |
| ISSN: | 1936-153X 1936-1521 |
| Popis: | Research shows that exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is common among adolescents and that exposure to ACEs is associated with an increased risk of depression in adolescents. Furthermore, it is unknown whether resilience and spirituality moderate the association between ACEs and depression in African-American adolescents. Thus, the present study examined the prevalence of ACEs and the association between ACEs and the risk for depression in African-American adolescents and examined whether this association is moderated by resilience and spirituality. Survey data were collected from African-American adolescents who attended youth-targeted events held by churches in Houston, TX. An expanded ACE tool was used to collect data and respondents were dichotomized into two groups based on their summed ACE scores, i.e., 0–3 ACEs versus 4–19 ACEs. Logistic regression was conducted to examine the association between ACEs and the likelihood of depression and to examine whether this association is moderated by resilience and spirituality. The results indicate that half of the sample had been exposed to four or more ACEs and that ACEs are negatively associated with depression: higher levels of resilience and spirituality suggest a lower likelihood of depression. These results suggest the need to explore the prevalence of cumulative ACEs among homogenous samples of African-American adolescents and the need to continue exploring and addressing the prevalence of individual ACEs among homogenous samples of African-American adolescents. No clinical trials were performed for this study. |
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