The effects of experience of discrimination and acculturation during pregnancy on the developing offspring brain.

ABSTRACT: The experience of ethnic, racial, and structural inequalities is increasingly recognized as detrimental to health, and early studies suggest that its experience in pregnant mothers may affect the developing fetus. We characterized discrimination and acculturation experiences in a predominantly Hispanic sample of pregnant adolescent women and assessed their association with functional connectivity in their neonate's brain. We collected self-report measures of acculturation, discrimination, maternal distress (i.e., perceived stress, childhood trauma, and depressive symptoms), and socioeconomic status in 165 women. Then, we performed a data-driven clustering of acculturation, discrimination, perceived stress, depressive symptoms, trauma, and socioeconomic status variables during pregnancy to

SUBMITTER: Spann MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10724278 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature