Maternal psychosocial risk factors and lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) during infancy in a South African birth cohort.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between maternal antenatal and/or postnatal psychosocial risk factors (including depression, psychological distress, alcohol abuse and intimate partner violence (IPV) and infant lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in a low- and middle-income-country (LMIC). STUDY DESIGN:Pregnant women (n = 1137) enrolled in a South African birth cohort study, the Drakenstein Child Health Study (DCHS) were longitudinally assessed for psychosocial risk factors including depression, psychological distress, alcohol abuse and/or intimate partner violence (IPV). Infants were followed from birth until one year of age for the development of LRTI by active surveillance. Two outcomes were evaluated: any LRTI, and severe and/or hospitalised LRTI. Logistic regression was u

SUBMITTER: MacGinty R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6936815 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature