ArticleMaternal and child health journal2016
Sleep Moderates and Mediates the Relationship Between Acculturation and Depressive Symptoms in Pregnant Mexican-American Women.
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- A systematic review of acculturation and sleep health among adult immigrants in the United States.Sleep health · 2023Pooled it
- Sleep Disorders in South-South Latino Migrants: The Role of Acculturation in the Subjective Assessment of Insomnia Symptoms.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The effects of experience of discrimination and acculturation during pregnancy on the developing offspring brain.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Perceived social support predicts self-reported and objective health and health behaviors among pregnant women.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- Attachment Facilitates Acculturative Learning and Adversity Moderates: Validating the Theory of Epistemic Trust in a Natural Experiment.Child psychiatry and human development · 2020Article
- Acculturative stress is associated with trajectory of anxiety symptoms during pregnancy in Mexican-American women.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveGreater acculturation is associated with adverse perinatal outcomes in Mexican-American women, but the mechanisms by which acculturation influences perinatal outcomes are unclear. Pregnant acculturated Mexican-American women are more likely to engage in unhealthy prenatal behaviors relative to those less acculturated, including poor sleep. As sleep disruptions are associated with acculturation and negative perinatal outcomes, particularly maternal depression, alterations in sleep may adversely affect pregnant Mexican-American women.
methodsSixty pregnant women of Mexican descent completed surveys about sleep, acculturation, depressive symptoms and potential protective factor of social support.
resultsAcculturation, but not social support, significantly predicted increased sleep disruptions as well as overall feeling less refreshed upon waking across pregnancy. Moderation analysis indicated that more acculturated women who took longer to fall asleep reported increased depressive symptoms. Feeling refreshed upon waking also mediated the relationship between increased acculturation and elevated maternal depressive symptoms.
conclusionsAcculturation and altered sleep contribute to greater risk in Mexican-American women for maternal depressive symptoms in the perinatal period. These findings have implications for prevention and treatment of maternal mental health disorders, which may adversely affect perinatal outcomes in the vulnerable Mexican-American population.
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