Patterns of adversity and post-traumatic stress among children adopted from care
Researchers classified early adversity using records for 374 children adopted from care and examined later post-traumatic stress symptoms in a longitudinal questionnaire sample of 58 children. Multiple complex perinatal and postnatal adversity was associated with higher avoidance and arousal symptoms four years after placement.
Limitations: The symptom follow-up was much smaller than the record sample; proxy questionnaire symptoms are not equivalent to clinical diagnoses. Associations do not establish causation. Participants overlap with other Wales Adoption Cohort Study publications. Evidence-provider note: adoptive parents supplied some or all questionnaire/interview assessments of the adoptee’s outcomes. These proxy reports are not the adoptee’s own account; other evidence sources, where present, are described in the summary.
- Research type
- Longitudinal cohort analysis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children
Adoption context: Adoption from care
Programme: Wales Adoption Cohort Study
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified in indexed metadata reviewed. Affiliations, funding and conflicts have not been comprehensively audited; this does not confirm institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adverse childhood experiences, mental health, trauma
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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Entry: study_00055617480434b0