As the screening debate continues, it's important for us all to hear the perspective of the people who designed the ACE Study in the first place.
The attached video gives valuable insight and backstory to the intented use of ACEs Data. Most notably, the find your ACE Score one pager was never intended to be used as a research tool. It was always intended as a self-reflection exercise.
So the people who have been screaming don't screen have been validated. But so also have those of us who've been saying use the information for yourself.
Unfortunately we still don't live in a world where judgement, stigma and exploitive use of personal data have been eradicated.
Personal use of ACEs scores have value to provide potential context for individual lives.
Ultimately, population ACEs data simply corroborates what many of us have known for decades, we are not meeting the global developmental needs of our children, and there are consequences for that both individually and collectively.
This is must watch and read input from the originators of ACEs research.
From the You Tube description:
Dr. Robert Anda, Co-Principal Investigator and designer of the ACE Study, explains strengths and limitations of the ACE Score. He explains why the growing popular movement to use the ACE Score for screening patients, assigning risk, and making clinical decisions for individual patients is a misapplication of the ACE Study findings.
Video presentation linked here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfx5vOHFfxs
Published article of same title available here: https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0... https://www.aceinterface.com/
Comments (0)