Sentences with phrase «age of the adolescent mothers»

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A study of the dietary intake of Cypriot children and adolescents aged 6 — 18 years and the association of mother's educational status and children's weight status on adherence to nutritional recommendations

Existing research has often highlighted the adverse effects of air pollutants on lung function in school - age children and adolescents, but the effects of a mother's exposure to pollution on the lung function of her unborn child and shortly after birth are less well known.

The survey consisted of home interviews of 620 Jewish adolescents (aged 14 - 17) and their mothers, assessing socio - demographic characteristics and mental health, including suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

After analyzing the medical records of more than 1,000 women who gave birth between the ages of 15 and 24, investigators from the University of Michigan conclude that physicians caring for adolescent women should use BMI before pregnancy as a strong predictor of whether a young mother will gain too much weight during pregnancy, a risk factor for later obesity.

One study of 244 formerly depressed adolescents found that those whose mothers had a history of major depression were more likely to experience a recurrence of depression between the ages of 19 and 24, and had more frequent and severe depressive episodes.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

On a given day in Tokyo, the diverse array of people using bicycles here in this urban sprawl of 30 million souls includes: the middle - aged salary man riding to work on his fold - up bike in his business suit every day; the trendy adolescent skipping off to do some window shopping; the stay - at - home mother dropping not one, but two kids off at school; the pack of old men determined not to be late for their morning gate - ball contest; and, the serious cyclist kitted out in tight lycra and a fancy water - bottle pouch.

In Denver, mothers who received home visits had more sensitive mother - infant interactions and higher HOME scores than mothers who did not.80 Home visiting, however, had no significant effects on different aspects of the home environment in Elmira or Memphis.81 One possible explanation for this difference is that the majority of mothers at the Elmira and Memphis sites were adolescents, whereas the Denver mothers were more diverse in age, suggesting stronger effects for older mothers than for younger mothers with respect to the quality of the home environment.

The program originally developed in Elmira served primarily white, rural adolescent mothers (400 mothers, divided into four different treatment groups) for whom data are available through the child's fifteenth birthday.27 It was replicated in Memphis with an urban sample of 1,139 predominantly African American adolescent mothers and their children who have been followed through age nine28 and in Denver with an ethnically diverse sample of 735 low - income mothers and their children who have been followed through age four.29 Beginning in 1996, NFP programs began expanding to other states using a mix of private, local, and federal funds.

The four - year project consists of three components: (1) A longitudinal survey of mothers and preschoolers (from birth to age four) and adolescents (10 - 14 years).

After correcting for gender and age, at T1, the enforcement of house rules about smoking outside by non-smoking mothers was related to increased chances of adolescent smoking [odds ratio (OR) = 0.56, 95 % confidence interval (CI) = 0.36 — 0.88, P < 0.05].

Criteria for no comparable services were maternal age 18 years or older (adolescent mothers routinely receive parenting services at our institution) and no participation in the prior study of VIP or BB.

Depression, reflected in prolonged sadness and feelings of despair, is associated with less engaged, stimulating and proactive parenting, and with a range of social and cognitive problems in young children during infancy, toddlerhood and the preschool years.4 Because young children are so dependent on their mothers for cognitive stimulation and social interaction, they are more likely to be vulnerable to the impact of maternal depression than school - age children or adolescents.

However, US research on older age groups found that length of residence, as well as adolescents» positive socio - emotional adjustment and relationship with the mother, all appeared to make it easier to relate to a resident non-biological father figure (King, Amato & Lindstrom, 2015; King, Thorsen & Amato, 2014).

When infants were 3 months of age, we conducted a food frequency questionnaire to test the hypothesis that the adolescent mothers in the intervention group would be more likely to adhere to feeding guidelines of limiting their infants» intake to breast milk, formula, or water for the first 4 to 6 months of life, compared with mothers in the control group.

Eligibility for mothers included age < 18 years at delivery, first - time delivery, black, low income (defined as eligible for WIC — family income under 185 % of poverty level), and no chronic illnesses that would interfere with parenting or adolescent development.

Methods Seventy - eight adolescents (ages 11.58 — 17.42 years, M = 14.21) with type 1 diabetes and their mothers separately reported perceptions of maternal parenting style.

In a sample of 518 families, adolescents (49 % female; 83 % European American, 16 % African American, 1 % other ethnic groups) reported on their mothers» and fathers» psychological control and knowledge about adolescents» whereabouts, friends, and activities at ages 13 and 16.

In an examination of four nationally representative samples in the USA, McLanahan and Sandefur (1994) showed that adolescents raised by single mothers during some period of their childhood were twice as likely to drop out of high school, twice as likely to have a baby before the age of 20 and one and a half times more likely to be out of work in their late teens or early twenties than those from a similar background who grew up with two parents at home.

Eligibility for mothers included age less than 18 years at delivery, first - time delivery, African American ethnicity, low income (defined as eligible for WIC: family income under 185 % of poverty level), and no chronic illnesses that would interfere with parenting or adolescent development.

Use is made of triadic data, relying on reports from children aged 13 to 18, mothers and fathers within the same family (N = 357 families; 54.9 % female adolescents).

She has expertise with a wide range of issues including late adolescent / young adult struggles with identity development, women's adaptation to new roles as mothers who may have to juggle work and family and helping those who are faced with the challenges of aging...

This study, from a sample of ∼ 22 000 children and their mothers and fathers representative of the entire US population, demonstrates that living with fathers with depressive symptoms and other mental health problems is independently associated with increased rates of emotional or behavioral problems among school - aged children and adolescents.

One study explored relations between parent and adolescent aggressive behaviors in a nonclinical and non-court-referred sample by gathering mother, father, and adolescent reports of various behaviors over 8 years (i.e., at ages 10, 11, 12, 15, and 18)(Margolin and Baucom 2014).

Mothers» and fathers» physical punishment of their adolescents» ages 12 and 14 predicted increased misconduct and depressive symptoms among these adolescents at ages 14 and 16.

She has expertise with a wide range of issues including late adolescent / young adult struggles with identity development, women's adaptation to new roles as mothers who may have to juggle work and family and helping those who are faced with the challenges of aging... More

Two independent regression analyses were conducted to examine separately the contribution of perceived mother's and father's encouragement for PA at age 15 for predicting adolescent body image satisfaction at age 16.

Maternal depression and paternal history of antisocial behaviors were significant predictors and accounted for the prediction of paternal depression at child age 5 months and childhood / adolescent antisocial behaviors in mothers.

The sample consisting of 8th grade adolescents (n = 406; 178 girls) aged 12 — 14 years were classified into four subgroups based on their attachment security to their father and mother.