ArticleChild abuse & neglect2015
Maternal intimate partner violence exposure, child cortisol reactivity and child asthma.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic literature review of protective factors mitigating intimate partner violence exposure on early childhood health outcomes.Journal of advanced nursing · 2023Pooled it
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- "Part of the abuse is not letting me get him medical care": A qualitative examination of children's unmet health needs in the context of post-separation abuse.Child abuse & neglect · 2025Article
- Examining the impact of maternal experiences of domestic violence on the mental health of their adolescent children in India.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Maternal-infant interaction quality is associated with child NR3C1 CpG site methylation at 7 years of age.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2023Article
- Child maltreatment and asthma.Pediatric pulmonology · 2022Review
- Asthma in the Americas: An Update: A Joint Perspective from the Brazilian Thoracic Society, Canadian Thoracic Society, Latin American Thoracic Society, and American Thoracic Society.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2022Review
- Exposure to Violence, Psychosocial Stress, and Asthma.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2020Review
- Family Matters: Research on Family Ties and Health, 2010-2020.Journal of marriage and the family · 2020Article
- State-of-the-Science Review of Non-Chemical Stressors Found in a Child's Social Environment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
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- Maternal psychosocial risk factors and lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) during infancy in a South African birth cohort.PloS one · 2019Article
- Associations between maternal mental health and early child wheezing in a South African birth cohort.Pediatric pulmonology · 2018Article
- "At our age, we would like to do things the way we want: " a qualitative study of adolescent HIV testing services in Kenya.AIDS (London, England) · 2017Article
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Abstract
Psychosocial stressors like intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure are associated with increased risk of childhood asthma. Longitudinal studies have not investigated the role of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis reactivity (and associated alterations in cortisol release) in the child IPV exposure-asthma association. We sought to investigate this association, and to assess whether this relationship differs by child HPA reactivity. This secondary analysis used longitudinal cohort data from the Family Life Project. Participants included 1,292 low-income children and mothers; maternal interview and child biomarker data, including maternal report of IPV and child asthma, and child salivary cortisol obtained with validated stress reactivity paradigms, were collected when the child was 7, 15, 24, 35, and 48 months. Using structural equation modeling, maternal IPV when the child was 7 months of age predicted subsequent reports of childhood asthma (B=0.18, p=.002). This association differed according to the child's HPA reactivity status, with IPV exposed children who were HPA reactors at 7 and 15 months of age--defined as a ≥10% increase in cortisol level twenty minutes post peak arousal during the challenge tasks and a raw increase of at least .02μg/dl--being significantly at risk for asthma (7 months: B=0.17, p=.02; 15 months: B=0.17, p=.02). Our findings provide support that children who are physiologically reactive are the most vulnerable to adverse health outcomes when faced with environmental stressors.
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