Childhood Trauma and the Inability to Access Hospital Care Among People who Inject Drugs
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Abstract
Childhood traumatic experiences can disrupt attachment, influence personality development, and precipitate chronic disease. Although the repercussions of these experiences may also pose a barrier to healthcare, few studies have examined the association between childhood trauma and access to healthcare. Therefore, we sought to investigate whether a history of childhood trauma is associated with self-reported inability to access hospital care among persons who inject drugs (PWID). Data were derived from two prospective cohorts of PWID in Vancouver, Canada. We used multivariable generalized estimating equations to examine associations between five types of childhood trauma and self-reported inability to access hospital care, both overall and specifically due to perceived mistreatment by hospital staff. In total, 300 participants (18.3%) reported having tried but being unable to access hospital care in the previous 6 months at some point during the study period; the primary reason was perceived mistreatment by hospital staff (32.1%). In multivariable analyses, childhood emotional abuse was independently associated with self-reported inability to access hospital care, adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 1.51, 95% CI [1.03, 2.20]. Childhood physical neglect was also independently associated with inability to access care due to perceived mistreatment by hospital staff, AOR = 1.80, 95% CI [1.11, 2.93]. This suggests potentially damaging consequences of early trauma in adult PWID populations. Further, this study emphasizes the need for trauma-informed models of care as well as the need to improve therapeutic alliances with survivors of childhood trauma in the PWID population.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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