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Smoking in pregnancy and child development to age 9 years
Author(s) -
McGEE R.,
STANTON W. R.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1994.tb00631.x
Subject(s) - medicine , disadvantage , pregnancy , association (psychology) , cognition , language development , cognitive development , physical development , child development , developmental psychology , demography , pediatrics , psychiatry , psychology , philosophy , genetics , epistemology , sociology , political science , law , biology
This study examined the association between women's retrospective reports of smoking during pregnancy and subsequent language, cognitive, behavioural and physical development in their children up to age 9 years. While there was a strong association between maternal smoking and an index of disadvantageous child rearing, maternal smoking was not associated with more general family disadvantage. After controlling for levels of background disadvantage, no relationship was found between reports of smoking and language, cognitive or physical development. However, smoking was related to maternal reports of behaviour problems at age of school entry. Possible explanations for this relationship are discussed.