Nearly one in four people that responded to an informal survey conducted by the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department reported having at least four or more adverse experiences during childhood.
More than 500 people, mostly in the Kanawha-Putnam County region, took the Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey that was made available through the department’s website from Nov. 12-28.
Dr. Michael Brumage, the executive director and health officer at KCHD, said 28.2 percent of respondents had an ACE score of four or more out of 10.
An ACE score ranges between 0 and 10. At the end of the survey, respondents received their number. Brumage said the higher an ACE score, the more likely it is for the person to be at risk for smoking, obesity, depression or suicide.
[For more of this story, written by Carrie Hodousek, go to http://wvmetronews.com/2015/12...ience-online-survey/]
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