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Author: Gottfredson, Nisha C.
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1. Daugherty, Jill
Treves-Kagan, Sarah
Gottfredson, Nisha C.
Miedema, Stephanie
Haarbauer-Krupa, Juliet
Does Binge Drinking Mediate the Relationship Between Four Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Traumatic Brain Injury? Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort
Injury Prevention published online (2 November 2022): DOI: 10.1136/ip-2022-044710.
Also: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2022/11/02/ip-2022-044710
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group, Ltd. - British Medical Journal Publishing Group
Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Childhood Adversity/Trauma; Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Objective: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with increased risk of sustaining a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Alcohol use may play an important role in this relationship. This study examines whether binge drinking mediates the relationship between four ACEs and TBIs sustained in adulthood.

Methods: Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 cohort, we conducted longitudinal mediation analyses (n=6317). Interviews occurred annually from 1979 to 1994 and biennially until 2016. We evaluated the direct and indirect effects of individual ACEs (ie, experiencing physical violence, low parental warmth, familial alcoholism and familial mental illness; reported retrospectively) and a cumulative ACEs score on mean level of binge drinking (calculated across waves) and having a TBI in adulthood. To establish temporality, we included binge drinking that was measured at age 18 or older and before any reported TBI.

Results: Cumulative ACEs, familial alcoholism and physical abuse exposure were significantly associated with having a TBI through binge drinking, although this only explained a small part of the association between ACEs and TBI. Other ACEs were not significantly associated with binge drinking or TBI.

Bibliography Citation
Daugherty, Jill, Sarah Treves-Kagan, Nisha C. Gottfredson, Stephanie Miedema and Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa. "Does Binge Drinking Mediate the Relationship Between Four Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Traumatic Brain Injury? Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort." Injury Prevention published online (2 November 2022): DOI: 10.1136/ip-2022-044710.