Unmet Social Needs and Patterns of Hair Cortisol Concentration in Mother-Child Dyads.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mothers and their children demonstrate dyadic synchrony of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function, likely influenced by shared genetic or environmental factors. Although evidence has shown that chronic stress exposure has physiologic consequences for individuals-including on the HPA axis-minimal research has explored how unmet social needs such as food and housing instability may be associated with chronic stress and HPA axis synchrony in mother-child dyads.

Methods

We conducted a secondary analysis of data from 364 mother-child dyads with low-income recruited during a randomized trial conducted in an urban pediatric clinic. We used latent profile analysis (LPA) to identify subgroups based on naturally occurring patterns of within-dyad hair cortisol co

SUBMITTER: Keeton VF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10170601 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature