Association of child neurodevelopmental or behavioural problems with maternal unemployment in a population-based birth cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To estimate associations between suspected or diagnosed neurodevelopmental or behavioural problems in 7-year-old children and maternal unemployment at child age 7 and 10, in a Portuguese birth cohort.

Methods

We evaluated 5754 mothers and their children of the population-based birth cohort Generation XXI in Porto, Portugal. Data on suspected and diagnosed child neurodevelopmental and behavioural problems (exposures)-learning, attention and language problems, externalising behaviours, developmental delay, autism spectrum disorders, and other neurodevelopmental problems-were retrieved at 7 years of age by interviewing caregivers. Maternal employment status (outcome) was collected at the 7- and 10-year follow-up waves. Robust Poisson regression models were used to estim

SUBMITTER: Amaro J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10960748 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature