Friday, March 30, 2012: 1:25 PM-2:45 PM
Sierra H (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Speakers:David Corwin, MD, University of Utah
Vincent J. Felitti, MD, University of California
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the high prevalence of adverse childhood experiences in a middle-class population, their life-long adult damaging effects in terms of health
- Understand the connection between adverse childhood experiences and some of our most common public health problems such as depression, obesity, and the various addictions
- Understand how to use the ACE DVD as an important teaching tool for health professionals
Description:
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is an in-depth, retrospective and prospective analysis of over 17,000 adult San Diego members of Kaiser Permanente, matching their current health status against 10 categories of adverse childhood experiences that occurred on average a half-century earlier. The ACE Study challenges as needlessly superficial the conventional understanding of depression and addiction, showing these to have a powerful dose-response relationship to antecedent life experiences.
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