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ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 27, Issue 8, Pages 26S-32SPublisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1010539515589812
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adverse childhood experiences; mental health; physical health; university students
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- Vietnam Government
- Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Institute for Community Health Research, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue, Vietnam
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Recent systematic reviews have emphasized the need for more research into the health and social impacts of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the Asia-Pacific region. This cross-sectional study was conducted with 2099 young adult students in 8 medical universities throughout Vietnam. An anonymous, self-report questionnaire included the World Health Organization ACE-International Questionnaire and standardized measures of mental and physical health. Three quarters (76%) of the students reported at least one exposure to ACEs; 21% had 4 or more ACEs. The most commonly reported adversities were emotional abuse, physical abuse, and witnessing a household member being treated violently (42.3%, 39.9%, and 34.6%, respectively). Co-occurrence of ACEs had dose-response relationships with poor mental health, suicidal ideation, and low physical health-related quality of life. This first multisite study of ACEs among Vietnamese university students provided evidence that childhood adversity is common and is significantly linked with impaired health and well-being into the early adult years.
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