9. EUNICE IP ♀
Information acquired: 2025
EUNICE IP is an academic who published a paper in 2022 entitled Meta-Analysis : Exposure to Early Life Stress and Risk for Depression in Childhood and Adolescence. EUNICE IP published this work as part of a team: LeMoult, Joelle. Here is a description of this work: Objective: Early life stress (ELS) is associated with increased risk for the development of major depressive disorder (MDD) in adulthood; the degree to which ELS is associated with an early onset of MDD (i.e., during childhood or adolescence), however, is not known. In this meta-analysis, we estimated the associations between ELS and the risk for onset of MDD before age 18 years. In addition, we examined the associations between eight specific forms of ELS (i.e., sexual abuse, physical abuse, poverty, physical illness/injury, death of a family member, domestic violence, natural disaster, and emotional abuse) and risk for youth-onset MDD. Method: We conducted a systematic search in scientific databases for studies that assessed both ELS and the presence or absence of MDD before age 18 years. We identified 62 journal articles with a total of 44,066 uni.