Adverse family life events during pregnancy and ADHD symptoms in five-year-old offspring.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prenatal exposure to maternal adverse life events has been associated with offspring ADHD, but the role of familial confounding is unclear. We aimed to clarify if adverse life events during pregnancy are related to ADHD symptoms in offspring, taking shared familial factors into account.

Method

Data were collected on 34,751 children (including 6,427 siblings) participating in the population-based Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study. During pregnancy, mothers reported whether they had experienced specific life events. We assessed ADHD symptoms in five-year-old children with the Conners' Parent Rating Scale-Revised: short form. We modeled the associations between life events and mean ADHD scores with ordinary linear regression in the full cohort, and with fixed-e

SUBMITTER: Rosenqvist MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6563051 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature