Sentences with phrase «maternal health literature»

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Our use of observational data reflects the existing literature on lactation and maternal health; apart from a single randomized trial examining the effect of exclusive lactation duration on maternal weight loss, 48 there are no published studies of maternal health outcomes in randomized trials of breastfeeding.

We therefore performed each simulation 2,000 times, drawing key parameters at random from triangular distributions covering the range of estimates available in the literature associating breastfeeding with maternal health outcomes, centered on the point estimate provided in the literature and a distribution width of four standard errors.

Peer - reviewed literature from the LCE reports that these infants suffer behavioral and biological consequences for the duration of their lives, including poor health, increased stress, maternal incompetence and abnormal aggression.

This increase in risk in the very preterm group is consistent with the sparse literature describing the association between gestational age and parent's mental health, where others have also suggested that degree of prematurity is an important factor for maternal depressive symptoms.41 Suggested antecedents of PD include a trigger event resulting in a stress (fight or flight) response, symptoms (eg, fatigue), perceived loss of control and ineffective coping.10 This may fit the pattern of parents who experience a very preterm baby leading to an increased risk of PD, and this PD may result in symptoms that would more commonly be recognised as symptoms of postnatal depression or mood disorder (such as anxiety, depression, withdrawal from others and hopelessness).

Recognizing the potentially beneficial effects of mindfulness training on healthy attachment, this article reviews relevant literature in presenting a case for exploratory and empirical research into the dynamic relationship between mindfulness, attachment style, maternal health, and children's development.

The positive effects of partner support on pregnancy outcomes and maternal (mental) health are well established in the literature.

In fact, it is possible that child emotional or behavioral problems lead to paternal and / or maternal mental health problems, although the literature on maternal depression and other aspects of maternal mental health clearly indicate that in most such cases it is maternal mental health that influences child mental health.1, — , 12 Large sample sizes such as the 1 in this study sometimes result in statistically significant findings that may not be clinically significant, although this does not seem to be the case in this study, as paternal mental health problems or depressive symptoms were associated with considerably increased risks of child emotional or behavioral problems.

Empirical literature on specific mother — child interactions identified maternal warmth and maternal control as crucial factors in explaining children's internalizing and externalizing mental health problems (Albrecht et al. 2007; Casas et al. 2006; McNamara et al. 2010).