ArticlePsychosomatic medicine2017
Impact of Maternal Lifetime Interpersonal Trauma on Children's Asthma: Mediation Through Maternal Active Asthma During Pregnancy.
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- Mediators of the Association Between a Parent's Experience of Trauma and Their Children's Well-Being: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Pooled it
- Childhood abuse and perinatal outcomes for mother and child: A systematic review of the literature.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of prenatal maternal stressful life events and newborn DNA methylation.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Parental Preconception Adversity and Offspring Health in African Americans: A Systematic Review of Intergenerational Studies.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Pooled it
- The effects of violence and related stress on asthma.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2024Review
- Birthing parent adverse childhood experiences and risk of atopic diseases in 5-year-old children.Frontiers in allergy · 2024Article
- Child maltreatment and asthma.Pediatric pulmonology · 2022Review
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- Exposure to Violence, Psychosocial Stress, and Asthma.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2020Review
- Antenatal active maternal asthma and other atopic disorders is associated with ADHD behaviors among school-aged children.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2019Article
- Maternal childhood and lifetime traumatic life events and infant bronchiolitis.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2019Article
- Ambient Air Pollution and Asthma-Related Outcomes in Children of Color of the USA: a Scoping Review of Literature Published Between 2013 and 2017.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2018Article
- Evidence establishing a link between prenatal and early-life stress and asthma development.Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology · 2018Review
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Abstract
objectiveTraumatic stressors, including child abuse and/or interpersonal violence over a woman's lifecourse, can affect the health of her children. This study examines the associations between maternal lifetime interpersonal trauma (IPT) and children's asthma by age 6 years (n = 857).
methodsPregnant women completed the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale; IPT exposure was categorized as unexposed (55%), early (childhood and/or teen years only, 25%), late (adulthood and/or index pregnancy, 7%), and chronic (early and late, 13%). Clinician-diagnosed asthma in children was reported by mothers at each follow-up visit until the child reached age 6 years. We examined the effects of maternal IPT categories and child's asthma using logistic regression. Using structural equation models, we also examined indirect relationships between maternal chronic IPT and child asthma operating through active asthma in pregnancy, prepregnancy BMI, prenatal smoking, and/or increased exposure to other adverse life events or environmental toxins prenatally. Effect modification by the child's sex was examined.
resultsMothers were primarily Hispanic (55%) or black (30%) with less than high school education (62%). In logistic regression models, chronic maternal IPT (compared with unexposed) was associated with asthma in boys (odds ratio = 2.87, 95% confidence interval = 1.48-5.57) but not girls (odds ratio = 0.69, 95% confidence interval = 0.23-2.12; pinteraction = .042). In structural equation models, chronic IPT was associated with maternal active asthma in pregnancy (β = 0.59, p < .001), maternal active asthma was associated with children's asthma (β = 0.20, p = .009), and the total indirect effect for this path was significant (β = 0.12, p = .031). Associations were most evident among boys.
conclusionsMothers' history of chronic IPT was associated with asthma in boys. This association was mediated through active maternal asthma in pregnancy.
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