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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Operational Definitions and Scoring Childhood Experiences Survey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Individual Items<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Q1: Family Financial Problems: ACE = Often or Very Often
Q2: Food Insecurity: ACE = Sometimes, Often, or Very Often
Q3: Homelessness: ACE = Rarely, Sometimes, Often or Very Often
Q4: Psychological Abuse: ACE = Often or Very Often*
Q5: Peer Victimization: ACE = Often or Very Often
Q6: Physical Neglect: ACE = Never, Rarely or Sometimes
Q7: Emotional Neglect: ACE = Never, Rarely, or Sometimes
Q8: Physical Abuse: ACE = Once or More than once*
Q9: Domestic Violence: ACE = Once or More than once*
Q10: Sexual Abuse: ACE = Once or More than once*
Q11: Household Mental Illness: ACE = Yes*
Q12: Household Alcohol Abuse: ACE = Yes
Q13: Household Drug Abuse: ACE = Yes
Q14: Household Crime: ACE = Yes*
Q15: Parental Divorce: ACE = Yes*
Q16: Parental Absence: ACE = Yes
Q17: Death of parent or sibling: ACE = Yes
Q18: Violent Crime Victimization: ACE = Yes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aggregate Items<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Chronic or Severe Poverty: If ACE endorsed for Q1, Q2, or Q3<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Any Childhood Neglect: If ACE endorsed for Q6 or Q7<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Parent Alcohol or Substance Abuse: If ACE endorsed for Q12 or Q131<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Divorce or Parental Absence: If ACE endorsed for Q15 or Q16<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    *All 8 items included in Wave I of the Adverse Childhood Experiences study (see Felitti et al., 1998). Wave II of the ACE study added questions about physical and emotional neglect (See Dube et al., 2003).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    For further information about this measure, contact: Dr. Joshua Mersky, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, mersky@uwm.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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