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Carey S Clark1, Abou El-Makarim Aboueissa2
1Nursing, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine - New York Campus, Denmark, ME, USA.
Objectives:
To determine the adverse childhood experience scores (ACES) of nursing students in the United States.
Methods:
Utilized the standardized Family Health History Questionnaire to determine the ACES of a national sample of nursing students. Simple descriptive statistics were used to analyze the findings.
Results:
Nursing students ACES indicate that they enter academia with a much higher baseline of childhood trauma versus the general population. Over 40% of nursing students surveyed had an ACES of 4 or more versus the national average of 12.5-13.3% of the general population having an ACES of 4 or more.
Conclusions:
This data provides support for Conti-O'Hare's theory of nurses as wounded healer. Nursing faculty should consider nursing students to be members of a vulnerable population and revise curricula to support nursing students stress resileince.
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