Reducing behavior problems in children born after an unintended pregnancy: the generation R study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine differences in behavior problems between children from intended versus unintended pregnancies, and to estimate how much the difference in problem behavior would be reduced if postnatal depression was eliminated and social support was increased within 6 months after birth.

Methods

Data from the Generation R Study were used, a population-based birth cohort in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (N = 9621). Differences in child internalizing and externalizing behavior at ages 1.5, 3, 6, 9 and 13 years between pregnancy intention groups were estimated using linear regression. Associations of postnatal depression and social support with internalizing and externalizing problems were also estimated using linear regression. Child behavior outcomes where compared before

SUBMITTER: Enthoven CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11522198 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature