Cumulative environmental risk in substance abusing women: Early intervention, parenting stress, child abuse potential and child development

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dc.contributor.authorNair, P., Schuler, M. E., Black, M. M., Kettinger, L., & Harrington, D.
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-20T17:39:24Z
dc.date.available2015-10-20T17:39:24Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.description.abstractObjective: To assess the relationship between cumulative environmental risks and early intervention, parenting attitudes, potential for child abuse and child development in substance abusing mothers. Method: We studied 161 substance-abusing women, from a randomized longitudinal study of a home based early intervention, who had custody of their children through 18 months. The intervention group received weekly home visits in the first 6 months and biweekly visits from 6 to 18 months. Parenting stress and child abuse potential were assessed at 6 and 18 months postpartum. Children’s mental and motor development (Bayley MDI and PDI) and language development (REEL) were assessed at 6, 12, and 18 months postpartum. Ten maternal risk factors were assessed: maternal depression, domestic violence, nondomestic violence, family size, incarceration, no significant other in home, negative life events, psychiatric problems, homelessness, and severity of drug use. Level of risk was recoded into four categories (2 or less, 3, 4, and 5 or more), which had adequate cell sizes for repeated measures analysis. Data analysis: Repeated measures analyses were run to examine how level of risk and group (intervention or control) were related to parenting stress, child abuse potential, and children’s mental, motor and language development over time. Results: Parenting stress and child abuse potential were higher for women with five risks or more compared with women who had four or fewer risks; children’s mental, motor, and language development were not related to level of risk. Children in the intervention group had significantly higher scores on the PDI at 6 and 18 months (107.4 vs. 103.6 and 101.1 vs. 97.2) and had marginally better scores on the MDI at 6 and 12 months (107.7 vs. 104.2 and 103.6 vs. 100.1), compared to the control group. Conclusion: Compared to drug-abusing women with fewer than five risks, women with five or more risks found parenting more stressful and indicated greater inclination towards abusive and neglectful behavior, placing their infants at increased risk for poor parenting, abuse and neglect. Early home-based intervention in high-risk families may be beneficial to infant development. (Author Abstract)en_US
dc.identifier.citationNair, P., Schuler, M. E., Black, M. M., Kettinger, L., & Harrington, D. (2003). Cumulative environmental risk in substance abusing women: Early intervention, parenting stress, child abuse potential and child development. Child abuse & neglect, 27(9), 997-1017.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139095/pdf/nihms307833.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/2567
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherChild Abuse & Neglecten_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectneglecten_US
dc.subjectrisk factorsen_US
dc.subjectdrug abuseen_US
dc.subjectpreventionen_US
dc.subjectparentingen_US
dc.subjectresearchen_US
dc.titleCumulative environmental risk in substance abusing women: Early intervention, parenting stress, child abuse potential and child developmenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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