A Preliminary Investigation of Psychoneurological Symptoms in Low-Income Mothers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exposure to chronic stressors may contribute to the development of psychoneurological symptoms (i.e., fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, sleep disturbance, depressed mood, and pain) that can compromise maternal function.

Objectives

In two studies of low-income mothers, we investigated the presence of psychoneurological symptoms and explored associations between mothers' stressors and psychoneurological symptoms as well as between symptoms and function. We also considered the possible mediating role of the symptoms between stressors and function.

Methods

We conducted secondary analyses of psychoneurological symptoms in two studies of low-income mothers of infants and toddlers in the United States. Study 1 sampled Latina women with limited English proficiency, w

SUBMITTER: Salomon RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8405459 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Set/Oct 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature