Childhood adversity in an Australian population

Rosenman, S; Rodgers, B

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Rosenman, S	en
dc.contributor.author	Rodgers, B	en
dc.date.accessioned	2022-06-30T23:08:57Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-06-30T23:08:57Z	-
dc.date.issued	2004	en
dc.identifier.citation	No 9 Vol.: 39	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/13809	-
dc.format	Pages 695-702	en
dc.language	en	en
dc.title	Childhood adversity in an Australian population	en
dc.title.alternative	Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.identifier.catalogid	12315	en
dc.identifier.url	http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-5644262850&partnerID=40&md5=161625d6dc0510d7816ae9c044f76f35	en
dc.subject.keyword	Adolescents	en
dc.subject.keyword	parental behavior	en
dc.subject.keyword	Australia	en
dc.subject.keyword	Middle Aged	en
dc.subject.keyword	Families	en
dc.subject.keyword	Experiences	en
dc.subject.keyword	Questionnaires	en
dc.subject.keyword	Childhood abuse	en
dc.subject.keyword	Controlled study	en
dc.subject.keyword	population research	en
dc.subject.keyword	Domestic violence	en
dc.subject.keyword	Male	en
dc.subject.keyword	Age	en
dc.subject.keyword	Invalid URL	en
dc.subject.keyword	Conflict	en
dc.subject.keyword	Sex difference	en
dc.subject.keyword	major clinical study	en
dc.subject.keyword	Adults	en
dc.subject.keyword	Child development	en
dc.subject.keyword	longitudinal study	en
dc.subject.keyword	Interviews	en
dc.subject.keyword	psychological aspect	en
dc.subject.keyword	Prevalence	en
dc.subject.keyword	Happiness	en
dc.subject.keyword	Family health	en
dc.subject.keyword	human relation	en
dc.subject.keyword	Female	en
dc.subject.keyword	new_record	en
dc.subject.keyword	Mental illness	en
dc.description.notes	Background. The impact of adversity in childhood is well established in clinical populations, but there is little information about adversity in wider populations. The aim of this paper is to report and to explore the distribution of childhood family adversity in an Australian population. Method. A total of 7485 randomly selected subjects in 20-24, 40-44 and 60-64 year age bands were interviewed at the outset of a longitudinal community study of psychological health in the Canberra region of Australia. In the initial cross-sectional interview, subjects answered 17 questions about experience of adversity in the home to age 16 years. Results. In the population, 59.5% had experienced some form of childhood adversity and 37% had experienced more than one adversity. Domestic conflict and parental psychopathology and substance use are the common adversities. Parental sexual abuse was reported by 1.1%. Adversity was highest in the 40-44 year age group and reported more in women in all age groups. The majority of subjects saw their childhood as happy or normal despite adversity, but happiness is affected most by domestic warmth and harmony, and normalcy by abuse and neglect. Severe adversities, physical and sexual abuse and neglect, were uncommon, but were related to multiple and other severe adversities. Conclusion. Some form of adversity is a common experience, although the severest abuses are less common in this population. Multiple adversities are common and only a minority experience single adversities. Physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect rarely occur alone, but indicate a context of abuse.<br/ >Cited By (since 1996):42Export Date: 23 July 2013Source: Scopus	en
dc.identifier.source	Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology	en
dc.date.entered	2014-07-21	en
dc.description.physicaldescription	Pages 695-702	en
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