Two-thirds of US adults report adverse childhood experiences: CDC study reveals troubling prevalence CDCMMWR childhood adversechildhoodexperiences cdc usadults publichealth
By Pooja Toshniwal PahariaJul 4 2023Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In the recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , researchers provided adverse childhood experience prevalence estimates for adult United States residents by sociodemographic variables.Study: Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among U.S. Adults — Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2011–2020. Image Credit: AfricaStudio/Shutterstock.
Data were obtained from the 2011-2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System yearly surveys of non-institutionalized individuals living in the U.S. Scores for ACEs were determined by accumulating affirmative replies to all the ACE categories and subsequently categorizing them as none, one ACE, two or three ACEs, or at least four ACEs.
Females , individuals aged between 25.0 and 34.0 years , non-Hispanic American Indians or Alaska Natives , multicultural adults , non-Hispanic multicultural adults , adults with annual incomes below $15,000.0 , adults who had not attained high school-level education , and jobless individuals or not able to find employment , had the highest incidence of at least four ACEs.
Individual and overall ACE incidence patterns differed by jurisdictional and sociodemographic variables, underscoring the need for jurisdictional and regional ACE data collection to guide focused prevention and reduce disparities.
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