Neighborhood Violent Crime and Perceived Stress in Pregnancy.

ABSTRACT: Stress has been shown to adversely affect pregnancy outcomes. Neighborhood crime rates may serve as one publicly available social determinant of health for pregnancy studies that use registry or electronic health record datasets in which individual-level stress data are not available. We sought to determine whether neighborhood violent crime incidents were associated with measured perceived stress in a largely minority, urban pregnancy cohort. We performed a secondary analysis of the 1309 Philadelphia residents participating in the Motherhood and Microbiome cohort (n = 2000) with both neighborhood violent crime and Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-14) data. Generalized linear mixed models accounting for confounding variables and geographic clustering demonstrated that, reg

SUBMITTER: Shannon MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7432742 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature