ArticleSleep health2018
Maternal antenatal stress has little impact on child sleep: results from a prebirth cohort in Mexico City.
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- Systematic review and meta-analysis on the relationship between prenatal stress and metabolic syndrome intermediate phenotypes.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2020Pooled it
- The chemical exposome during peri-pregnancy, maternal sleep outcomes post-pregnancy, and the potential mediating role of body mass index.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2026Article
- Association between maternal stress and child sleep quality: a nationwide ECHO prospective cohort study.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- A Longitudinal Study of Stress During Pregnancy, Children's Sleep and Polygenic Risk for Poor Sleep in the General Pediatric Population.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- A framework for testing pathways from prenatal stress-responsive hormones to cardiovascular disease risk.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Review
- Associations between daily ambient temperature and sedentary time among children 4-6 years old in Mexico City.PloS one · 2020Article
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objectivesMaternal antenatal stress may influence offspring development and behavior, but any association with child sleep is unknown.
methodsFrom 2007 to 2011, we recruited pregnant women in Mexico City to the Programming Research in Obesity, Growth, Environment, and Social Stressors prebirth cohort. Mothers completed the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS, a 4-item questionnaire assessing past-month stress) and the Crisis in Family Systems measure assessing negative life events (NLEs; how many domains among the 11 assessed in which the mother experienced a stressful event in the prior 6 months)-with higher scores reflecting higher stress-and provided 5 timed salivary samples per day on 2 consecutive days, from which we derived cortisol area under the curve, slope, and awakening response. At age 4-6 years, children's sleep was estimated using accelerometry over a 7-day period. We performed secondary analysis of associations of antenatal maternal stress with child sleep duration and efficiency (time asleep/time in bed) using linear regression adjusted for maternal and child characteristics.
resultsAmong 594 mother-child dyads, mean antenatal PSS score was 5.2 (SD = 3.2) out of 16, and mean NLE was 3.2 (SD = 2) out of 11; child sleep duration was 7.7 hours (SD = 0.7), and sleep efficiency was 79% (SD = 6). There was no association between any of the stress measures-PSS, NLE, or salivary cortisol-and sleep duration or sleep efficiency in adjusted or unadjusted models.
conclusionsAmong mother-child dyads in a Mexico City cohort, antenatal stress was not associated with important changes in child sleep at 4-6 years.
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