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Abnormalities of pregnancy as a function of anxiety and life stress.
Richard L. Gorsuch,Martha K. Key +1 more
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Results indicated that anxiety around the first trimester was related to abnormalities of pregnancy, parturition and infant status, and life stress during the second and third trimesters was similarly associated with the same measure of abnormalities.Abstract:
Various psychosocial factors, particularly anxiety, have been found to correlate with medical abnormalities in pregnancy. But measures of anxiety have often been obtained late in pregnancy and have rarely been examined in conjunction with life stress. Therefore, this study measured states of anxietyread more
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Maternal Stress and Preterm Birth
Nancy Dole,David A. Savitz,Irva Hertz-Picciotto,Anna Maria Siega-Riz,Michael J. McMahon,Pierre Buekens +5 more
TL;DR: The prospective collection of multiple psychosocial measures on a large population of women indicates that a subset of these factors is associated with preterm birth, including life events, social support, depression, pregnancy-related anxiety, perceived discrimination, and neighborhood safety.
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Effects of Stress and Social Support on Mothers and Premature and Full-Term Infants.
TL;DR: Both stress and support significantly predicted maternal attitudes at 1 month and interactive behavior at 4 months when data were pooled, and social support moderated the adverse effects of stress on mother's life satisfaction and on several behavioral variables.
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The association between prenatal stress and infant birth weight and gestational age at birth: A prospective investigation
TL;DR: Independent of biomedical risk, maternal prenatal stress factors are significantly associated with infant birth weight and with gestational age at birth.
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The preterm prediction study: Maternal stress is associated with spontaneous preterm birth at less than thirty-five weeks' gestation ☆ ☆☆ ★
Rachel L. Copper,Robert L. Goldenberg,Anita Das,Nancy C. Elder,Melissa Swain,Gwendolyn S. Norman,Risa Ramsey,Peggy Cotroneo,Beth A. Collins,Francee Johnson,Phyllis L. Jones,Arlene Meier +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a 28-item Likert scale was used to assess anxiety, stress, self-esteem, mastery, and depression in 25 to 29 weeks in 2593 gravid women and found that stress was significantly associated with spontaneous preterm birth and low birth weight.
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Self-reported depression and negative pregnancy outcomes.
TL;DR: There was no relationship of BDI scores with pregnancy outcome in the adolescents or adults, but among the adult gravidas the risk of a poor outcome rose 5-7% for each point the BDI total score increased, and physiological mechanisms associated with symptoms of depression might contribute to an increased risk of poor outcomes.
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