Association of Childhood Trauma Exposure with Adult Psychiatric Disorders and Functional Outcomes

Abstract

Children or adolescent trauma experience has already been linked to a number of detrimental mental health consequences, such as psychotic experiences, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and psychosis.Our study aimed to determine the link between repeated exposures to childhood trauma (CT) and adult mental and functioning consequences. By using two - a stage sample strategy, 820 individuals were chosen from age categories of kids, 10, 13, and 15 years old, from a population of about 3,670 kids. A maximum of 2981 evaluations were done upon that 820 kids up to the age of 16 (1647 observations of 820 people), as well as at the ages of 18, 23, 26, and 29 (1334 observations of 736 people). Data were collected through an interview for the evaluation of all consequences, with the exception of those mentioned (such as formal criminal histories). Of the 820 participants in the research, 436 (53.18%) were female and 384 (46.82%) were male. By the age of 16, 29.3% of kids (n = 241) had had one traumatic incident, 23.0% (n = 189) had experienced two, and 21.46% (n = 176) had experienced three or maybe more. The Odds Ratio (OR) for every disease seemed to be 1.1; 95% confidence interval, 1.0-1.3; and exposure to accumulated CT until the age of 16 was linked to a higher prevalence of adult psychiatric conditions and worse outcome measures, such as major results that show a markedly interrupted development into adulthood. Despite controlling for a wide variety of children contributing.