Long-lasting economic consequences of childhood neglect and abuse: population-based study

Background/Objectives: Emotional neglect, psychological, physical and sexual abuse before age 16 have long-lasting effects on a wide array of mental disorders. As a consequence, child maltreatment is likely to impact on health service uptake and productivity losses, even when the victims of child maltreatment have grown well into adulthood. It is therefore possible to calculate the dollar costs of some of the long-term effects of child maltreatment. The aim of this study is to calculate these costs, and in addition to evaluate how mastery (internal locus of control) could perhaps act as an amenable effect modifi…