Authors: JP Mersky, CTP Lee and RM Gilbert
Published by: American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2019
Typically, ACE screening involves asking individuals to answer yes/no questions taken from the original ACE-study questionnaire that counts ACEs and generates an ACE score. This score is then used by frontline practitioners to initiate a conversation about the individual’s history of ACEs to explore whether further treatment might be helpful. In some cases, individuals are then made aware of their treatment options, although some believe that conversations about ACEs may be beneficial in their own right.
Universal ACE screening is increasingly being implemented in local areas in North America and the UK, although ACE screening practices have recently been criticised on the grounds that most screening tools have not been sufficiently validated and that reliable treatment protocols have yet to be established.
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