Consistency in adult reporting of adverse childhood experiences

Colman, Ian; Kingsbury, Mila; Garad, Yasmin; Zeng, Yiye; Naicker, Kiyuri; Patten, Scott B.; Jones, Peter B.; Wild, T. Cameron; Thompson, Aiko K.

doi:10.1017/s0033291715002032

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“…Inconsistent reporting was most commonly attributable to events being reported at baseline but not at follow-up. The presence of some temporal disagreement in event reporting is in line with research indicating that retrospective recall of trauma can fluctuate and is influenced by people’s current mental state (Colman et al, 2016), Further, the temporal stability of the TALE is in line with gold standard trauma assessment measures such as the Trauma History Questionnaire (Mueser et al, 2001), particularly in relation to lower reliability for ‘other events’ items (Hooper et al, 2011). …”

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The Trauma and Life Events (TALE) checklist: development of a tool for improving routine screening in people with psychosis

Carr

Hardy

Fornells-Ambrojo

2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Best practice guidelines recommend traumatic events should be assessed in psychosis to support the identification and, when indicated, treatment of post-traumatic stress reactions. However, routine assessment in frontline services is rare, and available tools are not tailored to psychosis. Assessment obstacles include lengthy measures, a focus on single, physically threatening events, and the exclusion of psychosis-related traumas. Objective: To develop and validate a brief trauma screening tool for the identification of clinically significant traumas in people with psychosis. Method: The Trauma and Life Events (TALE) checklist was developed in conjunction with people with lived experience of trauma and psychosis, and specialist clinicians and researchers. The psychometric properties (i.e. test-retest reliability, content validity, construct validity) of the TALE were evaluated in a sample of 39 people with psychosis diagnoses. Results: The TALE displayed moderate psychometric acceptability overall, with excellent reliability and convergent validity for sexual abuse. High rates of psychosis-related trauma and childhood adversity were reported, in particular bullying and emotional neglect. A dose–response relationship between cumulative trauma, post-traumatic stress and psychosis was found. Conclusions: The TALE is the first screening tool specifically designed to meet the needs of routine trauma screening in psychosis services. The psychometric limitations highlight the challenge of developing a measure that is both sufficiently brief to be useful in clinical settings and comprehensive enough to identify all relevant adverse events. Validation of the TALE is now required across the spectrum of psychosis.

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The Trauma and Life Events (TALE) checklist: development of a tool for improving routine screening in people with psychosis

Carr

Hardy

Fornells-Ambrojo

2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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“…Another possibility is that current anxiety and depression may increase the tendency to recollect and report life events in a more negative and traumatic way [59,60], thus strengthening the negative association with mental health problems. However, those experiencing good times may also be inclined to report fewer adverse childhood events, thus weakening the negative association with mental health [61]. …”

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Childhood violence and mental health among indigenous Sami and non-Sami populations in Norway: a SAMINOR 2 questionnaire study

Hansen

Schei

Sørlie

et al. 2018

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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The main objectives of this study were to investigate the association between childhood violence and psychological distress and post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTS) among Sami and non-Sami adults, and to explore a possible mediating effect of childhood violence on any ethnic differences in mental health. This study is part of a larger questionnaire survey on health and living conditions in Mid- and Northern Norway (SAMINOR 2) which included 2116 Sami and 8674 non-Sami participants. A positive association between childhood violence and psychological distress and PTS in adulthood was found regardless of ethnicity. For women, childhood violence may have mediated some of the ethnic differences in psychological distress (53.2%) and PTS (31.4%). A similar pattern was found for men as to psychological distress (45.5%) and PTS (55.5%). The prevalence of psychological distress was significantly higher in the Sami than in the non-Sami group: 15.8% vs. 13.0% for women, and 11.4% vs. 8.0% for men. Likewise, PTS showed a higher prevalence in the Sami group, both for women (16.2% vs. 12.4%) and for men (12.2% vs. 9.1). Conclusion: A positive association between childhood violence and adult mental distress was found for both Sami and Norwegian adults. More mental problems were found among the Sami. Childhood violence may have mediated some of the ethnic differences.

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“…Third, reports by both groups could have been impacted by recall bias, which may have contributed to either over- or underreporting experiences of childhood adversity. Recent studies have found that both types of biased recall are related to psychological well-being at the time of assessment, with depression, chronic stress, and increased distress related to greater inconsistencies in reporting (Colman et al, 2016). These factors may also have impacted patients' ability to report on past events.…”

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Prevalence rates of childhood protective factors in adolescents with BPD, psychiatrically healthy adolescents and adults with BPD

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Temes

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et al. 2017

Personality & Mental Health

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Objective Existing research has demonstrated that both adolescents and adults with borderline personality disorder (BPD) report higher rates of childhood adversity than their same-age peers; no studies have examined if adolescents and adults with BPD differ based on the extent of these experiences. In the present study, we compared the prevalence rates and severity of multiple forms of abuse and neglect in adolescents and adults with BPD and in psychiatrically healthy adolescents. Methods Participants included 104 adolescent (aged 13-17 years) inpatients with BPD, 60 age-matched, psychiatrically healthy adolescents, and 290 adult inpatients with BPD. All participants completed an interview that assessed the presence and severity of multiple forms of childhood abuse and neglect. Results A significantly higher percentage of adolescents with BPD reported 5 of 12 pathological childhood experiences and described more severe abusive experiences than their psychiatrically healthy peers. In comparison to adolescents with BPD, a significantly higher percentage of adults with BPD reported nearly all forms of childhood adversity and rated these experiences as more severe. Conclusions Taken together, these results suggest that adults with BPD report more severe profiles of abuse and neglect than adolescents with the disorder, even though adolescents with BPD differ from healthy peers.

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Consistency in adult reporting of adverse childhood experiences

Abstract: Concurrent mental health factors may influence the reporting of traumatic childhood experiences. Studies that use retrospective reporting to estimate associations between childhood adversity and adult outcomes associated with mental health may be biased.

Cited by 226 publications

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The Trauma and Life Events (TALE) checklist: development of a tool for improving routine screening in people with psychosis

The Trauma and Life Events (TALE) checklist: development of a tool for improving routine screening in people with psychosis

Childhood violence and mental health among indigenous Sami and non-Sami populations in Norway: a SAMINOR 2 questionnaire study

Prevalence rates of childhood protective factors in adolescents with BPD, psychiatrically healthy adolescents and adults with BPD

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