Pathways From Socioeconomic Status to Prenatal Smoking: A Test of the Reserve Capacity Model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low-income, unemployed women with low levels of education are more likely to smoke during pregnancy compared to their higher-income, employed, and well-educated counterparts. The reserve capacity model (RCM) offers a theoretical framework to explain how psychosocial factors may serve as pathways connecting socioeconomic status (SES) to health behaviors. Research supports the link between prenatal smoking and several psychosocial variables such as chronic stressors, depressive symptoms, and social support. How these variables interrelate to explain the predominance of prenatal smoking in lower socioeconomic groups of pregnant women has not been fully elucidated.

Objective

The aim of this study was to test the RCM to evaluate the roles of early pregnancy levels of c

SUBMITTER: Yang I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5171236 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan/Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature