Effect of alcohol consumption and
psychosocial stressors on preterm and small - for - gestational - age births in HIV - infected women in South Africa: a cohort study
Not exact matches
Dr. Zota's work focuses
on using innovative, multi-disciplinary methods to: 1) identify sources and consequences of human exposure to environmental contaminants; 2) illustrate how environmental hazards may interact with social disadvantage and
psychosocial stressors to exacerbate health disparities; and 3) evaluate the impact of NGO and regulatory action
on emerging environmental health problems.
These efforts are intended to help students focus
on academics by reducing the
psychosocial stressors associated with poverty.
Our objective was to evaluate the effects of
psychosocial stressors and alcohol abuse
on birth outcomes in HIV - infected women.
The research
on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and early brain development has demonstrated that
psychosocial stressors are «toxic» to the developing brain and metabolic systems of the young child, resulting in poor mental health, cognitive disability, and chronic disease.
Their model proposes that the manifestation of the adverse effects of certain risk factors (e.g., parameters of the disease / disability, functional independence, and
psychosocial stressors)
on children's
psychosocial adaptation (e.g., mental, physical, and social functioning) may be attenuated by a variety of resistance factors (e.g., intrapersonal, social — ecological, and stress - processing variables).
On the one hand, relatives» stress outcome was independent of the objective
stressors (severity of the illness, kind of symptoms, level of
psychosocial functioning at admission).
Their model proposes that manifestation of the adverse effects of certain Risk Factors (e.g., parameters of the disease / disability, functional independence, and
psychosocial stressors)
on Adaptation (e.g., mental, physical, and social functioning) may be attenuated by a variety of Resistance Factors (e.g., intrapersonal, social — ecological, and stress processing variables).
On average, even amongst those who successfully cope with
psychosocial risk factors, the experience of such
psychosocial stressors appears to reduce people's resilience against subsequent negative life events [12].
Second, because we did not measure postwar
stressors, we can not rule out the influence of unmeasured aspects of the current
psychosocial environment
on the relation between attachment and mental health symptoms.