Assessing the reliability of retrospective reports of adverse childhood experiences among adult HMO members attending a primary care clinic.

By Shanta R. Dube, D. Williamson, Ted Thompson, V. Felitti, R. Anda. International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect, 2004

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Assessing the Reliability of Retrospective Reports of Adverse Childhood Experiences among Adolescents with Documented Childhood Maltreatment (2014, methodology): “(2004) commented on the Dube et al. (2004) study, noting several concerns about the conclusions on the reliability of retrospective self-reports. Widom et al. (2004) suggested that the findings reflecting moderate to good reliability of retrospective reports were “influenced” by the participants’ ag”
Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, High-Risk Behaviors, and Morbidity in Adulthood (2015, positive): “Although it is difficult to validate the extent to which selfreport reflects the “true” situation, Dube et al.38 found high test–retest reliability in both the individual questions and the overall ACE score, suggesting consistency of the ACE measurement.”
The Interrelatedness of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among High-Risk Juvenile Offenders (2016, background): “Examining test–retest reliability of the ACE sample specifically has found good/ moderate to substantial agreement (Dube et al., 2004).”
Health consequences of adverse childhood experiences: A systematic review (2015, background): “Although using such measures may have threatened study reliability through recall bias, retrospective responses to ACE have been found to be generally stable over time (Dube et al., 2004).”