Any kind of trauma in your early life – be it from abusive parents, drug addiction, or gun violence – its fallout would reverberate till the end of life, a new study says. According to research by the University of California, San Fransisco, painful and disturbing events that happened in your childhood can lead to poor mental health, apart from declining social habits, emotional isolation, and scarring. "We found that early-life trauma in particular, especially physical abuse by parents, was strongly related to end-of-life pain, loneliness, and depressive symptoms,” Dr.
Ashwin Kotwal, senior study author of the University of California, San Francisco's division of geriatrics and the San Francisco VA Medical Center, explained in a news release. What did the study find? Dr. Kotwal documented figures and details from a study that followed about 6,500 Americans over the age of 50 years, who died between 2006 and 2020, at an average age of 78 years.
Participants of the research, which was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, had to fill questionnaires about their experiences with eleven traumatic events and their psychosocial well-being and were interviewed every other year until they died. A final interview with a family member or friend with power of attorney provided gave into their end days. Researchers said two of the five participants experienced traumas during childhood – which included exposure to drug and alcohol abuse, apart from getting i.
