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Academy for Educational Development, Washington, DC. – 1999
The LINKAGES Project is intended to improve breastfeeding and related complementary feeding and maternal dietary practices. The project, in consultation with technical experts and program managers, identified a set of recommended feeding and dietary practices intended to break the cycle of poor health and nutrition that passes from generation to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Breastfeeding, Child Development, Dietetics
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Spence, Susie A.; Adams, James P. – Journal of Black Studies, 1997
Using a sample of 30 African American adolescents, explores the relationship between self-esteem and participation in a supportive prenatal care program designed specifically for this age group. Findings indicate no significant relationship between the overall self-esteem construct and use of prenatal care services. (GR)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged, Help Seeking
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Yang, Yih-Ming; Andrews, Susan; Peterson, Rose; Shah, Arvind; Cepeda, Manuel – Patient Education and Counseling, 2000
Assesses the effect of prenatal education about newborn sickle cell screening on parents' compliance with the follow-up for infants with sickle cell trait. Results show that parents whose prenatal education included sickle cell hemoglobinopathy information retained significantly more of the information given during the post-natal education than…
Descriptors: Followup Studies, Infants, Parents, Patient Education
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Posner, S. F.; Learman, L. A.; Gates, E. A.; Washington, A. E.; Kuppermann, M. – Social Indicators Research, 2004
Background: Prenatal screening for chromosomal abnormalities is routinely offered to all pregnant women who present for care by their 20th gestational week. Not all women, however, choose to undergo one of these tests, and choice of which test(s) to undergo also vary. The reasons for variation in screening test behavior have not been fully…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Females, Ethnic Groups, Screening Tests
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Pearson, Charlotte; Thurston, Miranda – Children & Society, 2006
This article discusses the issue of engagement in antenatal parent education for women living in deprived areas. The article focuses on the findings of a local evaluation of a Sure Start parent education programme designed to improve parental engagement with antenatal services. The article discusses the re-orientation of this service, the impact…
Descriptors: Females, Parent Education, Parent Participation, Incidence
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Brotman, Laurie Miller; Gouley, Kathleen Kiely; Huang, Keng-Yen; Rosenfelt, Amanda; O'Neal, Colleen; Klein, Rachel G.; Shrout, Patrick – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2008
This article presents long-term effects of a preventive intervention for young children at high risk for antisocial behavior. Ninety-two children (M age = 4 years) were randomly assigned to an 8-month family intervention or no-intervention control condition and assessed 4 times over a 24-month period. Intent-to-treat analyses revealed significant…
Descriptors: Intervention, Aggression, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
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Eberstadt, Nicholas – Public Interest, 1994
Examines infant mortality rates in the District of Columbia and explains the causes. Comparisons are made between infant deaths in the district and in the United States as a whole, infant mortality rate differences by socioeconomic class and between blacks versus whites, and the influence of low rates of prenatal care and illegitimacy. (GLR)
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Illegitimate Births, Infant Mortality
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Joyce, Ted; Gibson, Diane; Colman, Silvie – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2005
We analyze the relationship between prenatal WIC participation and birth outcomes in New York City from 1988 - 2001. The analysis is unique for several reasons. First, we have over 800,000 births to women on Medicaid, the largest sample ever used to analyze prenatal participation in WIC. Second, we focus on measures of fetal growth distinct from…
Descriptors: Females, Prenatal Care, Pregnancy, Premature Infants
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Nigg, Joel T.; Breslau, Naomi – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Background: Prenatal problems are among theorized etiologies for child disruptive behavior problems. A key question concerns whether etiological contributors are shared across the broad range of disruptive psychopathology or are partially or largely distinct. Method: We examined prenatal smoking exposure and low birth weight as risk factors for…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Behavior Problems, Smoking, Risk
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Bhatara, Vinod; Loudenberg, Roland; Ellis, Roland – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2006
Objective and methods: To explore association between prevalence of ADHD and levels of risk for gestational alcohol exposure, the authors reviewed the charts of 2,231 youth referred for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Participants were categorized into four groups by different levels of risk for gestational alcohol exposure. For each group, the…
Descriptors: Incidence, Hyperactivity, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorders
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Wakschlag, Lauren S.; Pickett, Kate E.; Kasza, Kristen E.; Loeber, Rolf – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: Prenatal smoking is robustly associated with increased risk of conduct problems in offspring. Observational studies that provide detailed phenotypic description are critical for generating testable hypotheses about underlying processes through which the effects of prenatal smoking may operate. To this end, we use a developmental…
Descriptors: Smoking, Males, Hyperactivity, Delinquency
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Kent, Lindsey; And Others – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1997
Five cases of fetal abuse by mothers suffering from depression are discussed. Four of the women had unplanned pregnancies and had considered termination of the pregnancy. Other factors associated with fetal abuse include pregnancy denial, pregnancy ambivalence, previous postpartum depression, and difficulties in relationships. Vigilance for…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Depression (Psychology), Family Planning, Mothers
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Uribe, F. Medardo Tapia; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1993
A study conducted in 1987 and two subsidiary studies in 1983 and 1990 examined the relationship between Mexican mothers' schooling and their attitudes to childbearing and childrearing. Results indicated that increased maternal schooling was related to the reception of more prenatal care, greater use of contraception, and smaller size of families.…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Rearing, Educational Attainment, Family Size
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Lub-Moss, Marike M. H.; Eurelings-Bontekoe, E. H. M. – Patient Education and Counseling, 1997
Experience treating women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) from varied sociocultural backgrounds in a large inner-city general hospital is related to a literature review. Subgroups were identified according to personality pathology, psychiatric symptoms, and psychosocial stress factors. Accurate assessment, needs of individuals, treatment…
Descriptors: Counseling, Medical Services, Meta Analysis, Patient Education
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Schmitz, Marcelo; Denardin, Daniel; Silva, Tatiana Laufer; Pianca, Thiago; Hutz, Mara Helena; Faraone, Stephen; Rohde, Luis Augusto – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: Few previous studies assessed specifically attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, predominantly inattentive subtype (ADHD-I) in nonreferred samples. This study investigated the association between ADHD-I and prenatal exposure to nicotine. Method: In a case-control study performed between September 2002 and April 2005, we assessed a…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Mothers, Hyperactivity, Drinking
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