B3288 - Exploring the associations between adverse childhood experiences ACEs and multiple risk behaviours MRB in adolescence - 09/04/2019

B number: 
B3288
Principal applicant name: 
Caroline Wright | University of Bristol (United Kingdom)
Co-applicants: 
Dr Abby Russell
Title of project: 
Exploring the associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and multiple risk behaviours (MRB) in adolescence
Proposal summary: 

Adverse childhood experiences, or “ACEs” is a term which tells us if a young person has experienced any of a list of childhood adversities. We know that the more different ACEs people had experienced, the higher their risk of a range of negative physical and mental health outcomes is. Very little work has been done to test the predictors and outcomes of a wide ranging continuous score of multiple risk behaviours (MRB), so we are interested to see how well childhood ACEs predicts adolescent MRB.

Impact of research: 
This will result in an MSc. dissertation and a published paper.
Date proposal received: 
Monday, 8 April, 2019
Date proposal approved: 
Tuesday, 9 April, 2019
Keywords: 
Epidemiology, Addiction - e.g. alcohol, illicit drugs, smoking, gambling, etc., Behaviour - e.g. antisocial behaviour, risk behaviour, etc., Mental health, Statistical methods, Childhood - childcare, childhood adversity, Physical - activity, fitness, function