The Adverse Lived Experience Survey (ALES) For Traumatic Events - Experience & Exposure
Adverse Lived Experiences (ALE) involve traumatic events that are emotionally and sometimes physiologically overwhelming. These experiences may further involve - actual or threatened - injury to one's psychological and [or] physical integrity. Reactions to traumatic events vary considerably, ranging from relatively mild, creating minor disruptions in one's life, to severe and debilitating.

The purpose of the survey is academic, research, and/or publication only.You are participating by offering your own experiences to help me to appreciate the prevalence of 20 risk events in - Adverse Lived Experience (ALE) and Neuropsychosocial Trauma (NT) in ordinary life. Your informed consent is required in order to collect this data. This will be assumed with your completion and subsequent sending of the survey.

To protect your privacy and safeguard the integrity of the study, your responses are completely anonymised, unless you voluntarily provide your email address in the final question. Your ethnicity, year of birth, and the country in which you were born will help me to gauge diversity and representativeness in responses. Necessary measures are taken to guarantee confidentiality of your personal data in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the international ethical criteria contained in the Declaration of Helsinki.

Approximately three minutes expected time, a total of 26 questions.

Disclaimer
Please skip the questions with which you are uncomfortable.

Thank you very much for your participation!

Dr Winniey E Maduro (PI)
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1)     Year of Birth *
2)      Country of Birth *
3)     Ethnicity *
4)    Sex *
5)  Before your 16th birthday, did a parent or other adult in your household often swear at you, insult you, put you down, or humiliate you? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
6)  Before your 16th birthday, did a parent or other adult in your household often hit or beat you? Or act in ways that made you feel afraid you might be physically hurt? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
7)  Before your 16th birthday, were your parents or other principal caregiver often unable to take care of you because they were sleeping excessively, too drunk, or too strung out on drugs? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
8)  Before your 16th birthday, did you often feel that your family did not love you enough or did not treat you like you were important or good enough? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
9)  Before your 16th birthday, did you often feel you did not have enough to eat and had no one you could depend on to provide enough for you to wear, stay clean, or keep warm? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
10)  Before your 16th birthday, did you often feel that your family members did not care for each other or support each other enough? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
11)  Before your 16th birthday, was a biological parent ever lost to you through adoption, abandonment, death, disease, divorce, or other reason? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
12)  Before your 16th birthday, were you left for any extended period of time by one or both of your biological parents? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
13)  Before your 16th birthday, were you directly exposed to sexual activity (including sexually stimulating touching and conversations, voyeurism, and exposure to pornography)? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
14)  At any time in your life, have you or anyone related to you suffered with a severe disease, taken medication for a chronic illness, or had to be hospitalised for a major surgical intervention? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
15)  At any time in your life, have you or anyone related to you attempted suicide, self-mutilated, or self-hurt (including deliberately cutting, burning, striking, ripping-off or breaking parts of your own body)? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
16)  At any time in your life, have you or anyone related to you often felt alone, lonely, isolated, abandoned, or unable to build close and trusting relationships? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
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17)  At any time in your life, have you or anyone close to you suffered with drug-misuse addiction (including alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, and synthetic vape)? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
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18)  At any time in your life, have you or anyone related to you suffered from domestic violence? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
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19)  At any time in your life, have you or anyone related to you been affected by a premature death (suicide, homicide, disease, accidental death)? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
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20) At any time in your life, have you or anyone close to you suffered abuse or forced exit from a revered collective space (such as school, religion, or community) and needed help from protective services (such as family welfare, refuges, exiles, and human rights services)? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
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21)  At any time in your life, have you or anyone related to you suffered with homelessness (not having a safe place to sleep and selfcare for any length of time)? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
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22)  At any time in your life, have you or anyone related to you suffered imprisonment (not including short stays in police custody related to civil protests)? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
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23)  At any time in your life, have you or anyone related to you needed to be hospitalised or medicated for a  severe psychiatric condition (such as alcoholism, anxiety, depression, paranoia, and schizophrenia)? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
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24)  At any time in your life, have you or anyone related to you submitted to a mental healthcare practitioner or counselling therapist (voluntarily or involuntarily)? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
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25)  At any time in your life, have you or anyone related to you ever required adjustments or consideration for a special need, disability, or health condition that affects your daily life? To answer with detail in your own words, please use 'other'. *
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26)  What special need, disability, or health condition that affects your daily life and for which you need medication or special consideration? *
Providing your email address  as a unique identifier of your responses is voluntary. In doing so, you may be contacted about future related surveys.
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