Adverse childhood experiences and impact on quality of life in adulthood: development and validation of a short difficult childhood questionnaire in a large population-based health survey.

John-Kåre Vederhus Christine Timko Siri Håvås Haugland

Published in: Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation (2021)

The results confirmed the DCQ's discriminant and convergent validity and highlight this tool as an empirically supported approach to assess ACEs. Because of its brevity and psychometric strengths, the DCQ is useful for research and likely suited to mental health treatment settings.

Keyphrases

mental health
early life
childhood cancer
depressive symptoms
mental illness
cross sectional
combination therapy
psychometric properties
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