ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2014
Pregnancy-specific stress, preterm birth, and gestational age among high-risk young women.
Article in Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00271960 (Group Prenatal Care for Reducing the Risk of STDs in Pregnant Young Women), which is not on this map. Cited by 25 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Group Prenatal Care for Reducing the Risk of STDs in Pregnant Young Women
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prenatal allostatic load and adverse pregnancy outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.PeerJ · 2026Pooled it
- Household food insecurity associated with gestacional and neonatal outcomes: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Pooled it
- Prenatal maternal stress and risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in the offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2019Pooled it
- A systemic review of maternal wellbeing and its relationship with maternal fetal attachment and early postpartum bonding.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
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- Prenatal Psychosocial Distress Screening for Individuals Experiencing Pregnancies Complicated by Fetal Anomalies.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
- Women's experiences of high-risk pregnancy care in resource constrained Cape Town communities.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2025Article
- Maternal mental disorders and neonatal outcomes: Danish population-based cohort study.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2025Article
- Regulatory T-cell phenotypes in prenatal psychological distress.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2024Article
- Neighborhood racial composition and experiences of racial discrimination: Associations with cytokines during pregnancy among African American women.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
- Investigating associations between maternal stress, smoking and adverse birth outcomes: evidence from the All Our Families cohort.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Influence of perinatal distress on adverse birth outcomes: A prospective study in the Tigray region, northern Ethiopia.PloS one · 2023Article
- A Mindfulness Application for Reducing Prenatal Stress.Journal of midwifery & women's health · 2022Article
- Pregnancy anxiety, placental corticotropin-releasing hormone and length of gestation.Biological psychology · 2022Article
- Life stressors, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and preterm birth.Journal of psychosomatic obstetrics and gynaecology · 2022Article
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- Stress and Drug Use from Prepregnancy, During Pregnancy, to Postpartum.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2021Article
- [Visualization of unstructured personal narratives of perterm birth using text network analysis].Korean journal of women health nursing · 2020Article
- Conceptualization, measurement, and effects of pregnancy-specific stress: review of research using the original and revised Prenatal Distress Questionnaire.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2020Review
- Associations of Maternal Beliefs and Distress in Pregnancy and Postpartum With Breastfeeding Initiation and Early Cessation.Journal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant Association · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveThere is evidence that pregnancy-specific stress is associated with preterm birth. The purpose of this study is to examine the association between change in pregnancy-specific stress over the course of pregnancy and birth outcomes (i.e., preterm birth and gestational age) in an understudied but vulnerable group using a theoretically derived model.
methodsMultivariate linear and logistic regression techniques were used to examine the association between pregnancy-specific stress (measured in second and third trimester) and length of gestation (i.e., preterm birth and gestational age) among a sample of 920 Black and/or Latina adolescent and young women.
resultsSecond trimester pregnancy-specific stress was not associated with preterm birth or gestational age. Third trimester pregnancy-specific stress was associated with preterm birth but not with gestational age. Change in pregnancy-specific stress between second and third trimester was significantly associated with increased likelihood of preterm delivery and shortened gestational age, even after controlling for important biological, behavioral, psychological, interpersonal, and sociocultural risk factors.
conclusionsFindings emphasize the importance of measuring pregnancy-specific stress across pregnancy, as the longitudinal change from second to third trimester was significantly associated with length of gestation measured both as a dichotomous variable (preterm birth) and a continuous variable (gestational age). Furthermore, this is the first study to observe the association of pregnancy-specific stress with length of gestation in this understudied population-unique in age, race, and ethnicity.
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