ACEsConnection member Jonathan Purtle, research director at the Drexel Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, did an overview of ACEsConnection member Roy Wade's recent research for Philly.com' The Public Health column.
Dr. Roy Wade and colleagues at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania formulated a plan to identify what sorts of urban experiences might be missing from the ACE questionnaire: they asked people about their lives growing up in Philly. The results of the study were published this week in the journal Pediatrics....The most frequent top 5 stressors, however, were not asked originally. Community violence was listed 57 times by the Philadelphia participants. Negative adult behavior in the community, such as ongoing grudges between neighbors, was included 50 times. Stressors related to economic hardship were listed 67 times. Issues related to discrimination, 23 times.
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