Practitioner review: twenty years of research with adverse childhood experience scores–advantages, disadvantages and applications to practice

RE Lacey, H Minnis - Journal of Child Psychology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Adverse childhood experience (ACE) scores have become a common
approach for considering childhood adversities and are highly influential in public policy and …

[HTML][HTML] The mental and physical health of young carers: A systematic review

RE Lacey, B Xue, A McMunn - The Lancet Public Health, 2022 - thelancet.com
The health of those who care for someone with a health condition or advanced age is
poorer, on average, than non-carers. However, the health of young carers (< 18 years of …

[HTML][HTML] Socioeconomic position and body composition in childhood in high-and middle-income countries: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

C Bridger Staatz, Y Kelly, RE Lacey… - International Journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Background The relation between socioeconomic position (SEP) and obesity measured by
body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight for height, has been extensively reviewed in …

Adverse childhood experiences and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors from childhood to adolescence

L Bevilacqua, Y Kelly, A Heilmann, N Priest… - Child abuse & neglect, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) predict poorer mental health
across the life course but most of the extant research has employed ACE scores or …

The clustering of adverse childhood experiences in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: are gender and poverty important?

RE Lacey, LD Howe, M Kelly-Irving… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous research has demonstrated a graded relationship between the number of Adverse
Childhood Experiences reported (an ACE score) and child outcomes. However, ACE scores …

[HTML][HTML] Social isolation in childhood and adult inflammation: evidence from the National Child Development Study

RE Lacey, M Kumari, M Bartley - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Social isolation is known to be associated with poorer health amongst adults,
including coronary heart disease. It is hypothesized that this association may be mediated …

[HTML][HTML] Adverse childhood experiences and adult inflammation: Single adversity, cumulative risk and latent class approaches

RE Lacey, SMP Pereira, L Li, A Danese - Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have long been known to be
related to poorer health across the life course. Previous studies typically relied on …

[HTML][HTML] Parental separation in childhood and adult inflammation: the importance of material and psychosocial pathways

RE Lacey, M Kumari, A McMunn - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Childhood adversities are known to be associated with poorer health outcomes.
A potential mechanism may be through changes in inflammatory processes. One such …

[HTML][HTML] Adverse childhood experiences and adult inflammation: Findings from the 1958 British birth cohort

M Chen, RE Lacey - Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2018 - Elsevier
Background The relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and poorer
health across the life course is well established. Increased chronic inflammation might be …

Informal caregiving patterns and trajectories of psychological distress in the UK Household Longitudinal Study

RE Lacey, A McMunn, E Webb - Psychological medicine, 2019 - cambridge.org
BackgroundApproximately seven million people in the UK are engaged in informal
caregiving. Informal caregivers are at risk of poorer mental and physical health. However …