Inclusion
of maternal educational level and social class probably reduced any confounding by these factors but may not have eliminated residual confounding.
Not exact matches
Maternal characteristics which differed across quintiles
of free sugar intake during pregnancy included age, parity, pregnancy size, season
of birth, breastfeeding duration,
educational level, ethnicity, housing tenure, financial difficulties, anxiety
level, tobacco exposure and infection during pregnancy.
#: controlling for energy intake, smoking, infections, supplements, antibiotics and paracetamol use during pregnancy;
maternal educational level, housing tenure, financial difficulties, ethnicity, age, parity, history
of atopic diseases, anxiety, sex
of child, season
of birth, multiple pregnancy and breastfeeding duration.
If its goal
of providing family planning services to 120 million more women in the developing world is met, the payoff would be enormous at multiple
levels: lower
maternal and child mortality, better health, higher
educational attainment, poverty reduction, greater food and water security.
RESULTS: Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that long - term success (at least 5 % weight reduction by the 1 - year follow - up) versus failure (dropping out or less weight reduction) was significantly predicted by the set
of psychosocial variables (family adversity,
maternal depression, and attachment insecurity) when we controlled for familial obesity, preintervention overweight, age, and gender
of the index child and parental
educational level.
Maternal education at the time
of the survey child's birth was classified in 3
levels according to the mother's highest
level of educational attainment (no formal qualifications, high - school qualifications, tertiary qualifications).
It also included the covariates
maternal age and
educational level at registration and
level of domestic violence in the family (number
of incidents
of violence) measured over the 15 - year study period.
Although weakened, the beneficial effect
of breastfeeding remained significant after inclusion
of social class and education for the McCarthy GCI and the child PPVT - R at 4 years and the WISC - R Verbal and Full Scale IQs at 11 years (Table 3), confirming the results
of Lucas et al. 15 However, the inclusion
of two direct measures
of parental input,
maternal IQ and the HOME score in the next step
of the regression, reduced the breastfeeding, social class, and
educational influences to nonsignificant
levels.
Children's development was associated with a number
of social factors, including
maternal age and
educational level, income, employment and family characteristics.
We included the covariates: age, gender, alcohol consumption in the previous month, lifetime use
of cannabis, lifetime sexual abuse, repeated school years,
maternal educational level and single - parent family.
Gender (0 = girls, 1 = boys); alcohol consumption (1 = 10 + times in the past month), lifetime use
of cannabis (1 = once or more in their lifetime, 0 = never), lifetime sexual abuse (1 = once or more in their lifetime, 0 = never), repeated school years (1 = once or more in their life time, 0 = never),
maternal educational level (1 = baccalaureate or more, 0 = less than baccalaureate) and single - parent family (1 = yes, 0 = no)
Maternal educational level, household income and area deprivation have been selected as indicators
of socio - economic status.
The differences between the samples in terms
of maternal education
level and the number
of stressful life events in the past 5 years were marginally significant, revealing trends
of lower
maternal educational levels (M = 3.3, SD = 1.5 vs. M = 3.8, SD = 1.5; F = 2.38, p <.10) and more stressful life events (M = 2.5, SD = 1.8 vs. M = 2.0, SD = 1.5; F = 2.43, p <.10) in the PPD sample.
On the other hand, mothers»
educational level and child's type
of disorder, directly, and coping strategies, in the form
of mediator or directly, have a relationship with the dimensions
of maternal stress.