Effects of social supports on attitudes, health behaviors and obtaining prenatal care

Giblin, Paul T.; Poland, Marilyn L.; Ager, Joel W.

doi:10.1007/bf01324298

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“…In addition, European-American women reported significantly higher levels of support from a romantic or marital partner than did African-American women. This echoes the findings of Giblin, Poland, and Ager (1990), who found lower levels of intimacy for black women than for white women. They also found that intimacy was associated with obtaining adequate prenatal care and other healthy behaviors.…”

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Stress, Social Support and Coping in Pregnancy

1996

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The social support literature, despite its focus on women's strengths in relationships, has not fully addressed the social realities of women of diverse ethnic backgrounds and socio economic conditions. Specifically, the emphasis on marital relationships as primary sources of support during pregnancy marginalizes those women for whom these partnerships are unhelpful or unavailable. In addition, women's greater use of social support as a coping strategy is often portrayed in the coping literature as an ineffective approach to stress. Data from two studies of pregnant women are presented to illustrate these points and to present a new model of coping that reframes women's coping as prosocial, active and effective. Our article is designed to challenge researchers to examine the relevance of work on social support and coping to women of varying ethnicities and economic circumstances.

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Stress, Social Support and Coping in Pregnancy

1996

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“…The positive influence of social attachments on participation in HPBs has been documented in recent studies on physical fitness (Reifman and Dunkel-Schetter, 1990) and on positive prenatal attitudes, not using drugs, and obtaining adequate health care (Giblin et al, 1990). Yarcheski and Mahon (I989) discovered that social support influenced participation in HPBs for both adolescents and adults but had the greater influence for adolescents.…”

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The development of health protective behaviors among college students

1996

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This study uses structural equation modeling and a panel design to explain participation in health protective behavior (HPB) among college students. The direct, indirect, and total effects of gender, social influences (parental and peer behavior), social attachments (activity involvement, social support, and romantic involvement), social triggers (personal health, acute illnesses, and personal or family health crisis), health value, and effort to improve health behavior on HPB are examined. A path model with a high goodness of fit and an R2 of .418 shows that gender; health value, and effort to change health behaviors are the most powerful predictors of HPB participation, while parents and peers influence HPB indirectly through influence on health value and effort to change. Neither the social attachment nor social trigger items influenced HPB in this sample. Implications of these findings are discussed.

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“…Social support has been associated in some studies with earlier initiation of prenatal care (Giblin, Poland, & Ager, 1990;Schaffer & Lia-Hoagberg, 1997;Zambrana, Dunkel-Schetter, & Scrimshaw, 1996;Zambrana et al, 1997) and lower smoking (Schaffer & Lia-Hoagberg, 1997), alcohol (Stephens, 1985), or drug use (Giblin et al, 1990) during pregnancy. However, another study found no effect of social support on these pregnancy behaviors (Aaronson, 1989).…”

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Time in the United States, social support and health behaviors during pregnancy among women of Mexican descent

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Eskenazi

2006

Social Science & Medicine

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Among women of Mexican descent, increased acculturation in the United States has been associated with poorer health behaviors during pregnancy. This study examined a population of low-income women of Mexican descent in an agricultural community to determine whether social support patterns were associated with age at arrival in the U.S.; whether social support was associated with pregnancy behaviors; and whether increased social support could prevent some of the negative pregnancy behaviors that accompany acculturation. Participants were 568 pregnant women enrolled in prenatal care in the Salinas Valley, California. Participants were predominantly Spanish-speaking, born in Mexico, and from farmworker families. Information on social networks, social support, age at arrival in the United States, and pregnancy health behaviors was gathered during interviews conducted during pregnancy and immediately after delivery. Poorer health behaviors were observed among women who had come to the U.S. at a younger age. Social support during pregnancy was lowest among women who had come to the U.S. at an older age. High parity, low education, and low income were also associated with low social support. Higher social support was associated with better quality of diet, increased likelihood of using prenatal vitamins, and decreased likelihood of smoking during pregnancy. High social support also appeared to prevent the negative impact of life in the U.S. on diet quality. Women with intermediate or low levels of social support who had spent their childhoods in the U.S. had significantly poorer diet quality than women who had spent their childhoods in Mexico. However, among women with high social support, there was no difference in diet quality according to country of childhood. Thus, in the case of diet quality, increased social support appears to prevent some of the negative pregnancy behaviors that accompany time in the U.S. among women of Mexican descent.

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Effects of social supports on attitudes, health behaviors and obtaining prenatal care

Cited by 41 publications

References 16 publications

Stress, Social Support and Coping in Pregnancy

Stress, Social Support and Coping in Pregnancy

The development of health protective behaviors among college students

Time in the United States, social support and health behaviors during pregnancy among women of Mexican descent

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