Rebecca Lacey
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4197286 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rebecca Lacey |
| PRENOMES | Rebecca |
| SOBRENOME | Lacey |
| ASSINATURA | LACEY R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3510-0795 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Health Behaviour Changes Around Transitions Into and Out of Unpaid Caregiving in the UK
Background While unpaid caregiving has become an increasing public health concern, less is known about its association on modifiable health behaviours across the lifecourse. This study examined how transitions into and out of unpaid caregiving influence physical activity, diet, smoking, and alcohol consumption among UK adults aged 16 years and older. Methods We used longitudinal data from up to 35,779 participants from the UK Household Longitudin…
The association between employment and family histories and caregiving in later life. European findings based on SHARE and Elsa
Caregiving can be time-consuming, and it can be challenging for caregivers to combine caregiving tasks with other obligations. While we know a lot about the problems of combining informal care with employment and family obligations, past employment and family histories are seldom discussed. This study tries to fill this gap by examining the association between employment and family histories and caregiving in later life. We used pooled data from …
Young carers and inequalities in educational attainment and school engagement
Young carers (individuals under 18 providing care to family members) experience significant disadvantages. While prior research suggests caring negatively impacts education, evidence is limited by methodological constraints and lacks national-level representation. This study aimed to assess associations between young caring and official educational attainment and school engagement at primary and secondary school levels in England, and to identify…
Violence prevention through legislative change
Physical punishment violates children's rights as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and has consistently been linked to detrimental outcomes, yet it remains legal in most countries. In the UK, it is prohibited in Scotland and Wales, whereas in England and Northern Ireland, the defence of 'reasonable punishment' remains available to parents. We report findings from a qualitative study that sought to understand how law reform…
Can a warm and supportive adult protect against mental health problems amongst children with experience of adversity? A twin‐differences study
BACKGROUND: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with mental health problems, but many children who experience ACEs do not develop such difficulties. A warm and supportive adult presence in childhood is associated with a lower likelihood of developing mental health problems after exposure to ACEs. However, it is unclear whether this association is causal, as previous research has not accounted for genetic and environmental confound…
Setting the scene
With increasing demand for informal carers, young adults are taking up care of dependent adults. However, early adulthood is the period in which most people invest in human capital and transition to employment. Being neither in employment nor in training (NEET) during this period may have long-term effects, increasing the risk of poor mental health. This study explores data from the third wave of the European Health Survey to better understand th…
Mental Health Trajectories of Men and Women Who Start Providing Personal Care
Objectives We examine the mental health trajectories of people who start providing personal care and compare their trajectories with matched controls who remain non-carers. We also investigate whether trajectories vary by gender, financial resources, and supportive long-term care policies. Methods Using 9 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe, collected in 28 European countries from 2004 to 2022, we analyze longitudinal …
Differences by ethnicity in the association between unpaid caring and health trajectories over 10 years in the UK Household Longitudinal Study
BACKGROUND: Unpaid carers deliver critical social care. We aimed to examine differences by ethnicity in (1) profiles of unpaid caring and (2) associations between caring and physical and mental health trajectories. METHODS: We used 10 waves of data from 47 015 participants from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009-2020). Our outcomes were 12-item Short Form Health Survey physical and mental component scores. We performed bivariate comparison…
Gender inequalities in care across long-term care public spending systems in Europe
This article investigates gender inequalities in care provision across European long-term care (LTC) public spending systems using data from the European Health Interview Survey (2013–19). Women are more likely than men to provide care (OR = 1.41) and intensive care (OR = 1.50), particularly in countries with lower LTC public spending. Higher LTC expenditure appears to reduce intensive care but does not eliminate gender disparities, suggesting pe…
Is foster caring associated with an earlier transition to adulthood for caregivers’ own children? ONS Longitudinal Study
This study investigates whether existing children in a fostering household differ from young people in non-caregiving households in the timing of their transitions to key adult roles, which are known to affect later health and life chances. Using data from the ONS Longitudinal Study, we pooled records from census years 1971–2001 and linked them to follow-up records from 1981–2011. We identified 2,656 children living with a foster child and compar…
Understanding young caring in the UK pre- and post-Covid-19
Prevalence of young carers increased from 8% pre-pandemic to 11% post-pandemic. • Intensity (care for more than 10 h per week) increased after Covid. • More females engaged with higher intensity care than males. • Young carers are more prevalent in single-parent and socioeconomically disadvantage homes. • Young carers are more likely to be living in more deprived areas. Despite increasing awareness of young carers in recent years, there remains a…
Inequalities in associations between young adult caregiving and social relationships
INTRODUCTION: Young adult caregivers (aged 16-29 years) are an important but underrecognized group of informal caregivers. There is some evidence suggesting that young adult caregivers have fewer social relationships. However, this research has been largely cross-sectional in design or restricted to caregivers, providing no comparison with noncaregivers. Further, there is little evidence on whether and to what extent there are inequalities in ass…
Testing lifecourse theories characterising associations between maternal depression and offspring depression in emerging adulthood
BACKGROUND: Maternal depression is a major determinant of offspring mental health. Yet, little is understood about how the duration and timing of maternal depression shapes youth risk for depressive symptoms, which if understood could inform when best to intervene. This study aimed to determine how the timing and duration of maternal depression was related to offspring depression in emerging adulthood, and if these associations varied by sex. MET…
The potential of intervening on childhood adversity to reduce socioeconomic inequities in body mass index and inflammation among Australian and UK children
BACKGROUND: Lower maternal education is associated with higher body mass index (BMI) and higher chronic inflammation in offspring. Childhood adversity potentially mediates these associations. We examined the extent to which addressing childhood adversity could reduce socioeconomic inequities in these outcomes. METHODS: We analysed data from two early-life longitudinal cohorts: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC; n=1873) and the U…
Does young adulthood caring influence educational attainment and employment in the UK and Germany
Informal care plays an important role in the provision of care. However, previous research has mainly focused on middle- or older-aged informal carers and less is known about informal care among young adults, its consequences on educational achievement and employment transitions and whether this varies across country contexts. Using data from the 2009-2018 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (N= 25,856) and the German Socio-Economic Pane…
Childhood adversity and cardiometabolic biomarkers in mid-adulthood in the 1958 British birth cohort
Studies that have examined associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and cardiometabolic biomarkers in adulthood are limited as they mainly focus on childhood maltreatment. This study aimed to examine the association between a range of prospectively and retrospectively reported ACEs and cardiometabolic biomarkers in mid-adulthood. Multiply-imputed data on 8511 participants from the National Child Development Study (1958 British bi…
Adverse childhood experiences and adolescent drug use in the UK
ACEs are associated with adolescent drug use with potential consequences on wider aspects of young people's lives, regardless of their social, ethnic, or economic background, adding further urgency to the need to reduce the incidence of these negative experiences
Young Adult Carers in the UK—New Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study
Despite growing interest in young adult carers, little is known about trends in prevalence of caregiving among young adults aged 16-29. Furthermore, few studies have so far investigated demographic, health, and socioeconomic inequalities in the duration of care among young carers as well as demographic differences in caregiving characteristics. Using data from 11 waves of the nationally representative UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009-2021), …
Out-of-home care in childhood and socio-economic functioning in adulthood
Adverse childhood experiences and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors from childhood to adolescence
Adverse childhood experiences and multiple mental health outcomes through adulthood
Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is associated with a broad range of mental health-related outcomes. Previous studies tended to use retrospectively reported ACEs, measure mental health outcomes at a one time point in adulthood and focus on individual outcomes. Hence, this study aimed to examine the association between prospectively and retrospectively measured ACEs and a wide range of mental health-related outcomes, spanning ages …
Practitioner Review
BACKGROUND: Adverse childhood experience (ACE) scores have become a common approach for considering childhood adversities and are highly influential in public policy and clinical practice. Their use is also controversial. Other ways of measuring adversity - examining single adversities, or using theoretically or empirically driven methods - might have advantages over ACE scores. METHODS: In this narrative review we critique the conceptualisation …
Association of childhood out-of-home care status with all-cause mortality up to 42-years later
In this large, nationally representative study of dependent children resident in England and Wales, those who had been in care during childhood had a higher risk of mortality long after they had left care on average, mainly from unnatural causes. No differences by age or gender were found. Children in care have not benefitted from the general decline in mortality risk over time
Age at first birth and cardiovascular risk factors in the 1958 British birth cohort
BACKGROUND: To assess relationships between age at first birth and cardiovascular risk factors in a large longitudinal study of men and women. By assessing associations for both genders, we were able to investigate biological versus social and behavioural explanations from early life through to adulthood. METHODS: Multiply-imputed data on more than 7600 men and women of a British birth cohort study (National Child Development Study, 1958 British …
Parental nonstandard work schedules during infancy and children's BMI trajectories
Empirical evidence has demonstrated adverse associations between parental nonstandard work schedules (i.e., evenings, nights, or weekends) and child developmental outcomes. However, there are mixed findings concerning the relationship between parental nons
Work-Family Life Courses and Subjective Wellbeing in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (the 1946 British birth cohort study)
Studies investigating the impact of combining paid work and family life on wellbeing have generally used information at one or a limited number of points in the life course, and have mainly focused on women. This study uses multi-channel sequence analysis to characterise work-family life courses across adulthood (ages 16-60) for more than 1500 men and women in the MRC National Study of Health and Development. Wellbeing at age 60-64 was captured b…
Work-family life courses and metabolic markers in mid-life
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have found generally better health among those who combine employment and family responsibilities; however, most research excludes men, and relies on subjective measures of health and information on work and family activities from only 1 or 2 time points in the life course. This study investigated associations between work-family life course types (LCTs) and markers of metabolic risk in a British birth cohort study. M…
Out-of-home care in childhood and socio-economic functioning in adulthood
Parental nonstandard work schedules during infancy and children's BMI trajectories
Empirical evidence has demonstrated adverse associations between parental nonstandard work schedules (i.e., evenings, nights, or weekends) and child developmental outcomes. However, there are mixed findings concerning the relationship between parental nons
Age at first birth and cardiovascular risk factors in the 1958 British birth cohort
BACKGROUND: To assess relationships between age at first birth and cardiovascular risk factors in a large longitudinal study of men and women. By assessing associations for both genders, we were able to investigate biological versus social and behavioural explanations from early life through to adulthood. METHODS: Multiply-imputed data on more than 7600 men and women of a British birth cohort study (National Child Development Study, 1958 British …
Gender inequalities in care across long-term care public spending systems in Europe
This article investigates gender inequalities in care provision across European long-term care (LTC) public spending systems using data from the European Health Interview Survey (2013–19). Women are more likely than men to provide care (OR = 1.41) and intensive care (OR = 1.50), particularly in countries with lower LTC public spending. Higher LTC expenditure appears to reduce intensive care but does not eliminate gender disparities, suggesting pe…
Parental separation and psychological distress in early adulthood
Background An association between parental separation occurring during childhood and psychological distress has been shown many times. UK divorce rates have increased rapidly since the mid-twentieth century. The “reduced effect hypothesis” suggests that the effect of parental separation may have reduced over time as separation has become more common and consequently less stigmatising. Previous studies have looked at this using outcomes of educati…
P22 Childhood socioeconomic position and adult smoking
Background Studies have shown that childhood socioeconomic position (SEP) is related to smoking in adulthood, independent of adult SEP. Educational attainment partially mediates this association; however, previous studies suggest three childhood factors which may also be important-childhood cognitive ability, psychosocial adjustment and parental involvement. Objective To assess whether childhood psychosocial adjustment, cognitive ability and pare…
Childhood adversity as a risk for cancer
These findings suggest that cancer risk may be influenced by exposure to stressful conditions and events early on in life. This is potentially important in furthering our understanding of cancer aetiology, and consequently in redirecting scientific research and developing appropriate prevention policies
Parental separation and adult psychological distress
This study begins to disentangle the mechanisms between parental separation in childhood and adult psychological distress. Interventions which aim to support children through education, in particular, are likely to be particularly beneficial for later psychological health
Work-Family Life Courses and Subjective Wellbeing in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (the 1946 British birth cohort study)
Studies investigating the impact of combining paid work and family life on wellbeing have generally used information at one or a limited number of points in the life course, and have mainly focused on women. This study uses multi-channel sequence analysis to characterise work-family life courses across adulthood (ages 16-60) for more than 1500 men and women in the MRC National Study of Health and Development. Wellbeing at age 60-64 was captured b…
Work-family life courses and metabolic markers in mid-life
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have found generally better health among those who combine employment and family responsibilities; however, most research excludes men, and relies on subjective measures of health and information on work and family activities from only 1 or 2 time points in the life course. This study investigated associations between work-family life course types (LCTs) and markers of metabolic risk in a British birth cohort study. M…
Age at first birth and cardiovascular risk factors in the 1958 British birth cohort
BACKGROUND: To assess relationships between age at first birth and cardiovascular risk factors in a large longitudinal study of men and women. By assessing associations for both genders, we were able to investigate biological versus social and behavioural explanations from early life through to adulthood. METHODS: Multiply-imputed data on more than 7600 men and women of a British birth cohort study (National Child Development Study, 1958 British …
Parental nonstandard work schedules during infancy and children's BMI trajectories
Empirical evidence has demonstrated adverse associations between parental nonstandard work schedules (i.e., evenings, nights, or weekends) and child developmental outcomes. However, there are mixed findings concerning the relationship between parental nons
Practitioner Review
BACKGROUND: Adverse childhood experience (ACE) scores have become a common approach for considering childhood adversities and are highly influential in public policy and clinical practice. Their use is also controversial. Other ways of measuring adversity - examining single adversities, or using theoretically or empirically driven methods - might have advantages over ACE scores. METHODS: In this narrative review we critique the conceptualisation …
Association of childhood out-of-home care status with all-cause mortality up to 42-years later
In this large, nationally representative study of dependent children resident in England and Wales, those who had been in care during childhood had a higher risk of mortality long after they had left care on average, mainly from unnatural causes. No differences by age or gender were found. Children in care have not benefitted from the general decline in mortality risk over time
Adverse childhood experiences and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors from childhood to adolescence
Adverse childhood experiences and multiple mental health outcomes through adulthood
Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is associated with a broad range of mental health-related outcomes. Previous studies tended to use retrospectively reported ACEs, measure mental health outcomes at a one time point in adulthood and focus on individual outcomes. Hence, this study aimed to examine the association between prospectively and retrospectively measured ACEs and a wide range of mental health-related outcomes, spanning ages …
Childhood adversity and cardiometabolic biomarkers in mid-adulthood in the 1958 British birth cohort
Studies that have examined associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and cardiometabolic biomarkers in adulthood are limited as they mainly focus on childhood maltreatment. This study aimed to examine the association between a range of prospectively and retrospectively reported ACEs and cardiometabolic biomarkers in mid-adulthood. Multiply-imputed data on 8511 participants from the National Child Development Study (1958 British bi…
Adverse childhood experiences and adolescent drug use in the UK
ACEs are associated with adolescent drug use with potential consequences on wider aspects of young people's lives, regardless of their social, ethnic, or economic background, adding further urgency to the need to reduce the incidence of these negative experiences
Young Adult Carers in the UK—New Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study
Despite growing interest in young adult carers, little is known about trends in prevalence of caregiving among young adults aged 16-29. Furthermore, few studies have so far investigated demographic, health, and socioeconomic inequalities in the duration of care among young carers as well as demographic differences in caregiving characteristics. Using data from 11 waves of the nationally representative UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009-2021), …
Out-of-home care in childhood and socio-economic functioning in adulthood
Inequalities in associations between young adult caregiving and social relationships
INTRODUCTION: Young adult caregivers (aged 16-29 years) are an important but underrecognized group of informal caregivers. There is some evidence suggesting that young adult caregivers have fewer social relationships. However, this research has been largely cross-sectional in design or restricted to caregivers, providing no comparison with noncaregivers. Further, there is little evidence on whether and to what extent there are inequalities in ass…
Testing lifecourse theories characterising associations between maternal depression and offspring depression in emerging adulthood
BACKGROUND: Maternal depression is a major determinant of offspring mental health. Yet, little is understood about how the duration and timing of maternal depression shapes youth risk for depressive symptoms, which if understood could inform when best to intervene. This study aimed to determine how the timing and duration of maternal depression was related to offspring depression in emerging adulthood, and if these associations varied by sex. MET…
The potential of intervening on childhood adversity to reduce socioeconomic inequities in body mass index and inflammation among Australian and UK children
BACKGROUND: Lower maternal education is associated with higher body mass index (BMI) and higher chronic inflammation in offspring. Childhood adversity potentially mediates these associations. We examined the extent to which addressing childhood adversity could reduce socioeconomic inequities in these outcomes. METHODS: We analysed data from two early-life longitudinal cohorts: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC; n=1873) and the U…
Does young adulthood caring influence educational attainment and employment in the UK and Germany
Informal care plays an important role in the provision of care. However, previous research has mainly focused on middle- or older-aged informal carers and less is known about informal care among young adults, its consequences on educational achievement and employment transitions and whether this varies across country contexts. Using data from the 2009-2018 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (N= 25,856) and the German Socio-Economic Pane…
Is foster caring associated with an earlier transition to adulthood for caregivers’ own children? ONS Longitudinal Study
This study investigates whether existing children in a fostering household differ from young people in non-caregiving households in the timing of their transitions to key adult roles, which are known to affect later health and life chances. Using data from the ONS Longitudinal Study, we pooled records from census years 1971–2001 and linked them to follow-up records from 1981–2011. We identified 2,656 children living with a foster child and compar…
Understanding young caring in the UK pre- and post-Covid-19
Prevalence of young carers increased from 8% pre-pandemic to 11% post-pandemic. • Intensity (care for more than 10 h per week) increased after Covid. • More females engaged with higher intensity care than males. • Young carers are more prevalent in single-parent and socioeconomically disadvantage homes. • Young carers are more likely to be living in more deprived areas. Despite increasing awareness of young carers in recent years, there remains a…
Can a warm and supportive adult protect against mental health problems amongst children with experience of adversity? A twin‐differences study
BACKGROUND: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with mental health problems, but many children who experience ACEs do not develop such difficulties. A warm and supportive adult presence in childhood is associated with a lower likelihood of developing mental health problems after exposure to ACEs. However, it is unclear whether this association is causal, as previous research has not accounted for genetic and environmental confound…
Setting the scene
With increasing demand for informal carers, young adults are taking up care of dependent adults. However, early adulthood is the period in which most people invest in human capital and transition to employment. Being neither in employment nor in training (NEET) during this period may have long-term effects, increasing the risk of poor mental health. This study explores data from the third wave of the European Health Survey to better understand th…
Mental Health Trajectories of Men and Women Who Start Providing Personal Care
Objectives We examine the mental health trajectories of people who start providing personal care and compare their trajectories with matched controls who remain non-carers. We also investigate whether trajectories vary by gender, financial resources, and supportive long-term care policies. Methods Using 9 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe, collected in 28 European countries from 2004 to 2022, we analyze longitudinal …
Medicine (25 obras) · Psychology (20 obras) · Demography (18 obras) · Gerontology (14 obras) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (14 obras) · Longitudinal study (14 obras) · Psychiatry (14 obras) · Developmental psychology (12 obras) · Family Support in Illness (11 obras) · Population (11 obras)