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Reply to "Receiving health care can be stressful/traumatic, ACEs"

Hi Matt,

I just spent some time on pub med and gathered a list of articles, which helps with my own research interests in the role of early adversity as a risk factor for chronic illness (I write about the science on my blog Chronic Illness Trauma Studies).

I'm attaching some articles I found.

Included is a short list with some of the 9 most relevant articles that includes abstracts and links. These include a journal article I published this summer on the role of adverse babyhood experiences (ABEs), a term I've coined for effects of prenatal and perinatal events, including complications for the baby during and after birth until the 3rd birthday. ABEs include incubator care, hospitalization, invasive medical procedures, circumcision. I also pull together research on how these early events are risk factors for later effects of trauma (similar to ACEs) and also how events that are potentially traumatic for the mother also impact the baby, to also influence outcomes for both. I've attached a copy of my journal article.

I am also attaching a full list of 60 articles I found. I haven't read them and some will be more relevant than others. I can send you the list with the abstracts if you like.

Your question also helped me discover a national group that focuses on prevention of trauma in medical settings:

Take a look here:

cpts@email.chop.edu

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

https://www.nctsn.org/what-is-...types/medical-trauma

https://www.nctsn.org/sites/de...h_care_providers.pdf

https://www.nctsn.org/sites/de...h_care_providers.pdf

When I was in medical training 20 years ago, the hospital where I trained had a program to help prepare children for surgery. I don' t know if they specifically referred to it as preventing risk of trauma but they invested a great deal in it (McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario). The work above looks very similar.

Also find a video here talking about somatic experiencing as a way of working with medical trauma in childhood, as another form of validation for the importance of and effects of medical trauma. Includes interviews with the founder of SE, with Robert Scaer and MD who describes his own medical trauma in a reference in the short list; and Ana DoValle who worked with the child in the example:

BOB SCAER is interviewed
I believe all types of trauma are relevant to include as ACEs. Most have been studied even if these studies are sometimes hidden and not easily found.
warmly,

Veronique




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