Violence against children and adolescents (VAE) is a global health and social scourge. A quarter of adults claim to have been victims, but only a minority of them are identified early enough to avoid the lifelong somatic and neuropsychiatric consequences of this violence, as well as its major socio-economic impact. This QIM will generate new knowledge to address the multiple challenges of this complex issue. The research program brings together regional players with complementary approaches (sociology, demography, psychology, epidemiology, neurobiology, neuroimaging, neuroscience, biomarkers, and genetics).
The “physical child maltreatment (IPM)” axis will (i) identify, at population level, risk factors for IPM in order to produce a risk stratification tool for allocating prevention resources, (ii) explore the causes of social inequalities in the identification and care of IPM victims, and (iii) model, in mice, the effects of IPM at sensitive periods of brain maturation using behavioural and molecular approaches.
The “lifelong consequences of physical, sexual and psychological AEV” axis will enable us to (i) study the prevalence, determinants and medium- and long-term consequences of violence in large French cohorts, and (ii) identify individual predictors of the risk of development of AEV in interdisciplinary regional longitudinal cohorts of adolescents, to enable appropriate secondary prevention. The QIM will also provide intensive scientific support.
Project funding : 2023-2026 Région Île-de-France
ESSMA team members involved: Judith VAN DER WAERDEN, Fabienne EL-KHOURY, Aicha MOURCHIDI
Collaborations : M Chalumeau (CRESS (U1153- Epopé)/APHP)
Our team is located on a single site, on the 3rd floor of the Pierre et Marie Curie Faculty of Medicine, Pôle Saint-Antoine
27 rue de Chaligny
Paris 12°
Tél.: +(33) 01.44.73.84.45
Métro : Faidherbe-Chaligny (8), Reuilly Diderot (1)
Bus : 46 – 86
Vélib : Station 1108, 223 rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine
