Adverse Childhood Experiences studies
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Early childhood experiences that are stressful or traumatic have been linked to lifelong impacts on health, said Shelly Fuller, a school social worker in Madison and Huron schools.
The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study was conducted in the mid-1990s with more than 17,000 participants. The study was in collabortion with the Center for Disease Control’s division of violence and prevention.
Fuller will share information about ACE during a free community presentation from 8:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday at Holy Trinity Catholic School. Also presenting will be Lisa Sanderson, CDC’s Act Early Ambassador to S.D.
The study looked at the link between ACEs — including physical or sexual abuse, divorce in the family, substance abuse or violence in the home — and the individual’s long-term health and behavior.
“Sixty-seven percent of those in the study had at least one ACE,” Fuller said. “These study participants are actually still being followed today.”
Fuller said that high levels of stress at a young age physically affects the individual’s brain. Through a study young rats were trained to fear a certain flower. When those rats reproduced, their young exhibited the same fear of the flower without the outside influence used on their parents.