Sentences with phrase «odds of adverse childhood experiences»

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Beyond its contribution to the design of more effective teaching strategies, science can help policymakers and civic leaders understand how adverse, early childhood experiences disrupt brain architecture, and how effective interventions can shift the odds toward more favorable outcomes.

Relative to children with no ACEs, children who experienced ACEs had increased odds of having below - average academic skills including poor literacy skills, as well as attention problems, social problems, and aggression, placing them at significant risk for poor school achievement, which is associated with poor health.23 Our study adds to the growing literature on adverse outcomes associated with ACEs3 — 9,24 — 28 by pointing to ACEs during early childhood as a risk factor for child academic and behavioral problems that have implications for education and health trajectories, as well as achievement gaps and health disparities.

Adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95 % confidence intervals (CIs) were obtained from logistic regression models that assessed the associations between each category of adverse childhood experience and smoking behaviors.

Traumatic exposures increased the odds of oppositional defiant disorder and ADHD, but not conduct disorder for males, though adverse childhood experiences were unrelated to behavioral disorder diagnoses among females.

Compared with those reporting no adverse childhood experiences, persons reporting 5 or more categories had substantially higher risks of early smoking initiation (odds ratio [OR], 5.4; 95 % confidence interval [CI], 4.1 - 7.1), ever smoking (OR, 3.1; 95 % CI, 2.6 - 3.8), current smoking (OR, 2.1; 95 % CI, 1.6 - 2.7), and heavy smoking (OR, 2.8; 95 % CI, 1.9 - 4.2).