BACKGROUND Children of adolescent mothers present a high-risk group for child neglect and maltreatment. Previous findings suggest that early interventions can reduce maltreatment by improving the quality of mother-child interaction, particularly maternal sensitivity. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the effects of a mother-child intervention program using home visits and video-feedba...

OBJECTIVE To study the risk for congenital anomalies in the first child of women after bariatric surgery compared with all other women giving birth to their first child and divided by maternal body mass index (BMI) groups. DESIGN Prospective, population-based register study. SETTING Sweden. SAMPLE All firstborn children to women born 1973-83 were studied to determine if they had a congeni...

OBJECTIVES To determine the excess risk of non-chromosomal congenital anomaly (NCA) among teenage mothers and older mothers. DESIGN AND SETTING Population-based prevalence study using data from EUROCAT congenital anomaly registers in 23 regions of Europe in 15 countries, covering a total of 1.75 million births from 2000 to 2004. PARTICIPANTS A total of 38,958 cases of NCA that were live bir...

Mothers exposed to Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are at high risk to born babies with orofacial malformations such as cleft lips. About 9 percent of congenital abnormalities in babies of mothers with epilepsy relates to orofacial abnormalities. Maintaining safe antiepileptic drugs for millions of mothers with epilepsy is very important. Researches show that new AEDs have less side effects than the...

OBJECTIVES Work characteristics and maternal education have both been associated with low birth weight (LBW) delivery. We sought to examine the relative contribution of these two factors to LBW delivery and determine whether ethnic/racial differentials in educational attainment and work characteristics might play a role in well-described disparities in LBW. METHODS Scores for work substantive...

UNLABELLED The purpose of this study was to determine whether a genetic vulnerability for schizophrenia and/or health-risk behaviors among schizophrenic pregnant women were associated with an increased incidence of obstetric complications (OCs). METHOD A high-risk birth cohort was formed by searching the Finnish Perinatal Register for all births from 1991-2000 with arterial cord pH values bel...

OBJECTIVES To determine the feasibility, concurrent validity and discriminatory power of the instrument for Identification of Parents At Risk for child Abuse and Neglect (IPARAN) among Dutch parents with a newborn child. SETTING Community paediatrics. PARTICIPANTS Data from a controlled trial were used. In total, 2659 Dutch parents with a newborn child were invited to participate. Of the 26...

background: transition into parenthood is a major developmental life event and is very significant because development in infanthood is affected by the transition process of mothers parenting an infant. this study aimed to develop the assessment tool for transition process of high risk infant’s caregiver in korea. methods: the participants were 246 mothers of premature infant born with gestatio...

AIM To investigate the prevalence of nutritional parameters of risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and kidney diseases in healthy preschool children. METHODS This is an observational cross-sectional study with 60 healthy children, of both genders, aged two to six years old and 56 mothers, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Preschool children and their families with regular activities ...

Cryptorchism is one of the few well-described risk factors for testicular cancer. It has been suggested that both conditions are related to increased in utero estrogen exposure. The evidence supporting the "estrogen hypothesis" has been inconsistent, however. An alternative hypothesis suggests that higher in utero androgen exposure may protect against the development of cryptorchism and testicu...