Background

A robust literature-base on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) provides strong evidence on the relationships between social adversity in childhood and the health and well-being of individuals across the lifespan. One form of social adversity, exposure to violence in childhood, is not only harmful to a child's health and well-being, but detrimental to their performance in school. Poor performance in school may affect educational attainment later in life and hinder a child's upward social mobility. We focus on the impact of violence-related ACEs on school success factors to add new evidence on how violence in childhood affects a child's educational progress.

Objective

To examine the impact of violence-related ACEs on school success factors, including grade repetition, school absence, and school-home contact.

Participants and settings

This study uses secondary data analysis of a nationally representative survey, the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH), to study a sample of non-institutionalized children aged 6–17 in the US (n = 35,122).

Methods

We employed binary logistic regression and multinomial logistic regression using 95% confidence intervals to analyze the effect of violence in childhood on three school success factors, controlling for socio-demographic and health status characteristics.

Results

We found that violence in childhood increases the likelihood of grade repetition (OR = 1.47, 95% CI, 1.12–1.92), school-home contact (OR = 2.20, 95% CI, 1.86–2.60), and school absence greater than one week (OR=1.4, 95%CI,1.08-2.00; OR=1.86, 95%CI, 1.36–2.60), controlling for socio-demographic and health status characteristics.

Conclusions

Violence in childhood has a statistically significant negative impact on each of the school success factors included in this study.

中文翻译：

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童年暴力对美国儿童学业成功因素的影响

背景

关于不良童年经历 (ACE) 的强大文献基础为童年时期的社会逆境与个人一生的健康和福祉之间的关系提供了强有力的证据。一种社会逆境形式，即童年时期遭受暴力，不仅对儿童的健康和福祉有害，而且不利于他们在学校的表现。在学校表现不佳可能会影响以后的教育成就，并阻碍孩子向上的社会流动性。我们关注与暴力相关的 ACE 对学校成功因素的影响，以增加关于童年暴力如何影响儿童教育进步的新证据。

客观的

研究与暴力相关的 ACE 对学校成功因素的影响，包括留级、缺课和学校与家庭的联系。

参与者和设置

本研究使用具有全国代表性的调查——全国儿童健康调查 (NSCH) 的二手数据分析来研究美国 6-17 岁的非住院儿童样本 ( n  = 35,122)。

方法

我们采用二元逻辑回归和多项逻辑回归，使用 95% 置信区间来分析童年暴力对三个学校成功因素的影响，控制社会人口和健康状况特征。

结果

我们发现童年时期的暴力行为增加了留级（OR = 1.47, 95% CI, 1.12–1.92）、学校与家庭接触（OR = 2.20, 95% CI, 1.86–2.60）和旷课超过一的可能性周（OR=1.4, 95%CI,1.08-2.00; OR=1.86, 95%CI, 1.36-2.60），控制社会人口和健康状况特征。

结论

童年时期的暴力对本研究中包含的每个学校成功因素都有统计学上显着的负面影响。