Differences in folic acid use, prenatal care, smoking, and drinking in early pregnancy by occupation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe differences in four high risk periconceptional behaviors (lack of folic acid supplementation, lack of early prenatal care, smoking, and drinking) by maternal occupation.

Methods

Analyses were conducted among women in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study who delivered liveborn infants without birth defects. Periconceptional occupational data were collected using a computer-assisted telephone interview and occupational coding was performed using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification System. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine whether prevalence of behaviors differed between occupational groups.

Results

Subjects included 5153 women employed during early pregnancy from 1997 to 2007. Compared to women in management,

SUBMITTER: Agopian AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4591538 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature