Not exact matches
Helping adolescent males to delay fatherhood may also be important from a child
health perspective: research that
controlled for maternal age and other key factors found teenage fatherhood associated with an increased risk
of adverse pregnancy
outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight and neonatal death (Chen et al, 2007).
Here are some examples
of ways that these research values are being put into practice: the ongoing Educare Randomized
Controlled Trial and the Doula Home Visiting Randomized
Controlled Trial measure myriad
health outcomes; and two studies
of Educare by embedded local evaluation partners have explored the relationship
of adverse childhood experiences to various childhood
outcomes, with a focus on social - emotional and behavioral
health.
Maternal depression has been shown to be associated with many
adverse health outcomes among the offspring
of depressed women, including preterm birth, low birth weight, newborn irritability, developmental delays, somatic complaints, sleep problems, child abuse, and psychiatric and neurobehavioral disorders.8 — 21 Although considered to be attributable in part to genetic factors, some
of the behavioral problems observed among children
of depressed women are thought to arise from the negative parenting behaviors that these women display.22 — 24 Such negative parenting behaviors include inconsistent discipline and
control, unavailability, and emotional insensitivity.22 — 24