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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Maternal characteristics"”.
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The Effects of Maternal Characteristics on Adolescent Emotion Regulation
… adolescence. Much research has demonstrated that maternal factors play a role in childhood emotion regulation; however, little research has looked at how these factors might predict emotion regulation during adolescence. Therefore, my thesis study assessed how maternal personality, parenting …
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Maternal Supportiveness of Infants at 1, 2, and 3 Years of Age in Low-Income Families: Associations With Maternal Characteristics, Child Characteristics, and Developmental Outcomes at 5 Years
This study investigated maternal supportiveness of infants at 1, 2, and 3 years of age in low-income families. Maternal supportiveness over time was categorized as stably low, stably medium, stably high, increasing, or decreasing. The study determined associations between supportiveness group and …
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Influences on Parenting and Child Outcomes Among School -Age Children of Adolescent Mothers
… to influence parenting in middle-class samples (maternal characteristics, contextual factors, and child characteristics) likewise influence parenting in the current population, but unlike research findings based on middle-class samples, child characteristics (rather than maternal characteristics) …
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Low birthweight discrimination using maternal variables.
Many studies have reported factors, such as maternal weight, weight gain during pregnancy, smoking habit, which are associated with birthweight. Hytten and Paintin (1963), Duffus et al (1971), Pirani, Campbell and MacGillivray (1973) have shown a relationship between plasma volume expansion in …
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Clinical utility of 3D power doppler ultrasound and maternal biomarkers in the prediction of pre-eclampsia in high-risk pregnancies
Globally, pre-eclampsia is a leading cause of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. Approximately 2% of all pregnant women develop pre-eclampsia; women with high-risk co-morbidities are particularly at risk with reported incidences of up to 20%. Evolving evidence suggests that an integrated …
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Influences Of Early Child Characteristics And Health On Later Parent And Parent-Child Relationship Factors
… temperament and health difficulties influence maternal characteristics over the first three years as well as the mother child relationship. We used longitudinal data from 1364 families, collected as part of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (NICHD SECCYD). Longitudinal …
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Method of Infant Feeding as a Predictor of Maternal Responsiveness
… regard to infant feeding as a potential factor. Maternal responsiveness appears to be key in the child's development of secure attachment behaviors, yet even after decades of research on infant attachment and maternal responsiveness, there is little evidence available to assist with early …
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Birth Outcomes In Georgia: Socioeconomic and Ecological Analyses of Low Birth Weight, 2000-2006
… age, and birth weight, controlling for certain maternal characteristics such as age, race, marital status, and education, for infants born in the state of Georgia. Ecological analyses were also conducted using the Georgia OASIS Mapping Tool from the Georgia Division of Public Health. …
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Home environments and developmental outcomes of children born to teenage mothers
… even taking other socio-demographic and maternal characteristics into account. Moreover, the results showed that the home environment was the best predictor for both the academic achievement and the behavioral problems of children even after controlling for such background factors as …
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Maternal predictors of school readiness among at-risk Head Start preschool children
… environmental stressors, and other demographic characteristics) have not been closely considered nor adequately researched. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine if maternal characteristics (e.g., maternal role satisfaction, future orientation, and level of maternal involvement) …
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The Effect of Birth Order on Infant Injury
… of risk factors were defined for analysis: maternal demographics, maternal risk behaviors, and infant demographics. Two outcome variables were defined for this study, “injury event” and “severe injury event.” Data was analyzed using generalized estimating equations (GEE). Birth order was …
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Outcomes of preterm infants discharged early from a South African Kangaroo Mother Care Unit
… objectives were to correlate neonatal and maternal characteristics pre-discharge to outcomes – mortality and morbidity. Setting: George Hospital is the regional hospital for the Eden and Central Karoo districts, with its tertiary referral centre 400km away in Cape Town. In these areas, …
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The Relationship of Child Health and Parenting Stress to Child Neurocognitive Development
… dyads. In addition, the study aimed to describe maternal and child characteristics associated with child neurocognitive development (NCD) at age 3 years. We examined the differences in parenting stress levels in mothers of 3-year-old children with and without special health care needs. The …
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FATHER INVOLVEMENT IN LOW-INCOME FAMILIES: EVIDENCE ON PREDICTORS OF INVOLVEMENT FROM TWO LARGE SCALE MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH DATASETS
… has been identified to be a key contributor to maternal and child wellbeing. This dissertation examines the utility of using existing, large-scale maternal-child health datasets to generate insights into the processes that contribute to father involvement. Two large scale maternal-child health …
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Maternal Emotion Regulation as a Moderator of Relation of Parenting Stress to Dyadic Interaction in Mother-Child Dyads during Preschool
… separate spheres, per family systems theory. Maternal parenting behaviors cannot be conceptualized in isolation of the mother-child dyad; therefore, it is important to understand maternal processes and behaviors that relate to parenting and also the dyad. The current study examined the …
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Maternal antecedents to adolescent girls’ neural regulation of emotion
… differences by investigating the role of maternal emotional resources, in the form of adult attachment and emotional awareness. Participants included 35 adolescent girls (M age = 15.51, SD = 0.37) who completed an implicit emotion regulation task (Lieberman et al., 2007) during an fMRI …
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Maternal Intrusive Involvement and Adolescent Functioning in Youth with Type I Diabetes
… with type 1 diabetes is the degree of maternal involvement. Adolescents whose mothers are actively involved in the daily management of their diabetes tend to follow their regimen more consistently and are in better glycemic control. However, intrusive levels of involvement have been …
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Biomonitoring polybrominated diphenyl ethers in lactating women
… levels in breast milk and stage of lactation, maternal characteristics, living environment and dietary intake. Forty women, ages 22 to 40, provided up to three breast milk samples at the end of their first, second and third month of breastfeeding for evaluation of day-to-day and month-to-month …
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Umbilical artery Doppler velocimetry in predicting the perinatal outcomes in small for gestational age infants
… or reverse end-diastolic flow (A/REDF). The maternal characteristics and perinatal outcomes were compared between each groups. RESULTS: No differences in maternal age and parity were observed. In each groups, the mean gestational age at delivery were 37.3 ± 2.8, 36.0 ± 2.3, 32.4 ± 2.8 weeks …
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Determinants of maternal delivery at rural health facilities a study undertaken in the Mpigi District of Uganda
… District is a rural district in Uganda with high maternal morbidity and mortality. While most pregnant women in Uganda attend antenatal clinics, few ultimately deliver their babies in a health facility. Interventions have not achieved increased utilisation of maternal services. A review of …
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