Sentences with phrase «increases psychological dysfunction»

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Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7

Together, these findings corroborate that children and adolescents living in shelters, camps and processing centres are subjected to increased risk for psychological dysfunction (Rudic, Rakic, Ispanovic - Radojkovic, Bojanin & Lazic, 1993).

In summary, caring for a child with ID is associated with an increased risk of psychological distress among parents and family dysfunction.

Chronic psychological distress may place parents at increased risk of marital disruption, family dysfunction, and for a number of physical and mental health conditions.

Increased symptom severity was associated with greater dysfunction in terms of family cohesion and flexibility (β coefficient − 0.13; 95 % CI − 0.23, − 0.03), increased caregivers» EE levels on the form of emotional overinvolvement (β coefficient 1.03; 95 % CI 0.02, 2.03), and psychological distress (β coefficient 3.37; 95 % CI 1.2Increased symptom severity was associated with greater dysfunction in terms of family cohesion and flexibility (β coefficient − 0.13; 95 % CI − 0.23, − 0.03), increased caregivers» EE levels on the form of emotional overinvolvement (β coefficient 1.03; 95 % CI 0.02, 2.03), and psychological distress (β coefficient 3.37; 95 % CI 1.2increased caregivers» EE levels on the form of emotional overinvolvement (β coefficient 1.03; 95 % CI 0.02, 2.03), and psychological distress (β coefficient 3.37; 95 % CI 1.29, 5.45).