Infant Mortality and Low Birth Weight among Minority Groups in the United States: A Review of the Literature

Samuels, Barbara

doi:10.1037/e378512004-001

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“…Socioeconomic, ethnic and racial, and age differences in birthweight or gestational age at delivery might be expected based on past research (Cramer, 1987;Powell-Griner, 1988;Rogers, 1989;Samuels, 1986). African-American women, poor or uneducated women, and women less than 18 years old or more than 35 years old have higher rates of low birthweight in the United States (Becerra, Hogue, Atrash, & PeVez, 1991;Buescher et al, 1988;Institute of Medicine, 1985;Shiono, Klebanoff, Graubard, Berendes, & Rhoads, 1986; R. L. Williams, Binkin, & Clingman, 1986).…”

Section: Conceptualizing Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prenatal maternal stress and prematurity: A prospective study of socioeconomically disadvantaged women.

Lobel¹,

Dunkel-Schetter²,

Scrimshaw³

1992

Health Psychology

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Developed and tested a biopsychosocial model of birthweight and gestational age at delivery using structural equation modeling procedures. The model tested the effects of medical risk and prenatal stress on these indicators of prematurity after controlling for whether a woman had ever given birth (parity). Subjects were 130 women of low socioeconomic status interviewed throughout pregnancy in conjunction with prenatal care visits to a public clinic. The majority of women were Latino or African-American. Half were interviewed in Spanish. Lower birthweight was predicted by earlier delivery and by prenatal stress. Earlier delivery was predicted by medical risk and by prenatal stress. Parity was not related to time of delivery or to birthweight. Implications of results for the development of biopsychosocial research on pregnancy and on stress are discussed.

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Section: Conceptualizing Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prenatal maternal stress and prematurity: A prospective study of socioeconomically disadvantaged women.

Lobel¹,

Dunkel-Schetter²,

Scrimshaw³

1992

Health Psychology

310

196

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“…Birth outcomes are an important variable of interest because low birth weight and preterm births are the predominant risk factors for infant mortality (Institute of Medicine, 1985), and they vary significantly across race and ethnic groups. Cubans and Mexicans have higher or equivalent levels of healthy birth outcomes relative to whites, whereas Puerto Rican women have lowerbirth-weight infants (Becerra et al, 1991;Hummer et al, 1992;Samuels, 1986). Contemporary research notes that although infant mortality rates have declined, the adverse birth outcomes of low birth weight and preterm births have increased (Guyer, Freedman, Strobino, & Sondik, 2000).…”

Section: Infant and Child Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%