The following questions ask about difficult events you may have experienced in your lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. As a child<\/strong>, did a parent or adult in your home ever hit, beat, kick, or physically hurt you in any way? Do not include spanking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. As a child<\/strong>, did your parents or adults in your home ever slap, hit, beat, kick, or physically hurt each other?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. As a child<\/strong>, did an adult or anyone at least 5 years older than you ever touch you sexually, try to make you touch them sexually, or force you to have sex?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. As a child<\/strong>, were your parents separated or divorced?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. As a child<\/strong>, was either one of your parents absent from your life for a long period of time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. As an adult<\/strong>, have you been hit, beat, kicked, or physically hurt by a partner or spouse?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. As an adult<\/strong>, has anyone ever forced you to have sexual activities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. In your lifetime<\/strong>, has a parent\/caregiver or partner\/spouse of yours ever been a problem drinker or alcoholic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. In your lifetime<\/strong>, has a parent\/caregiver or partner\/spouse of yours ever used illegal drugs or abused prescription medications?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. In your lifetime<\/strong>, has a parent\/caregiver or partner\/spouse of yours ever been depressed, mentally ill, or suicidal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11. In your lifetime<\/strong>, has a parent\/caregiver or partner\/spouse of yours ever been to prison or jail?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12. In your lifetime<\/strong>, have you ever been the victim of a violent crime* such as armed robbery or physical assault?<\/p>\n\n\n\n *Violent crime refers to a violent act by someone other than a spouse, partner or household family member. Do not include sexual violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13. As a child<\/strong>, how often did a parent\/caregiver ever swear at you, insult you, or put you down?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14. As an adult<\/strong>, how often has a spouse\/partner ever screamed at you or threatened you with harm?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 15. In your lifetime<\/strong>, how often have you felt that you have been discriminated against or treated unfairly because of race, gender or other personal characteristics?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16. In your lifetime<\/strong>, how often have you been hungry because your family could not afford food?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 17. In your lifetime<\/strong>, how often have you been homeless*?<\/p>\n\n\n\n *Homeless means having to stay somewhere like a transitional housing program, a shelter, a hotel\/motel paid by voucher, someone else\u2019s home, a car or other vehicle, an abandoned building, anywhere outside, or anywhere else not meant for people to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18. As a child<\/strong>, were you often bullied or severely teased by other children or adolescents?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 19. In your lifetime<\/strong>, have you ever seen someone die suddenly or get badly hurt or killed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20. In your lifetime<\/strong>, has a close friend or family member died suddenly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 21. In your lifetime<\/strong>, have you experienced a really bad car, boat, train, or airplane accident?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 22. In your lifetime<\/strong>, have you been in a hurricane, flood, earthquake, tornado, or fire?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 23. During or after your child\u2019s birth, did you feel that your life or your baby\u2019s life was threatened?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 24. Around the time of your child\u2019s birth, did you or your baby experience an actual injury or threat of serious injury?<\/p>\n\n\n\n For further information about this measure, contact: Dr. Joshua Mersky (mersky@uwm.edu) or Dr. James Topitzes (topitzes@uwm.edu), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following questions ask about difficult events you may have experienced in your lifetime. 1. As a child, did a parent or adult in your home ever hit, beat, kick, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19872,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-7382","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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