Publication details
Vztahy kouřících a nekouřících matek k novorozencům
| Title in English | Relationship of smoking and nonsmoking mothers with their newborn children |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2003 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Psychológia a patopsychológia dieťaťa |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Public health care, social medicine |
| Keywords | smoking in pregnancy; mother; father; newborn relationship; child` behavior; ELSPAC |
| Description | In the last time, we have more evidences about increased occurence of different behavioral disorders both in children and adults, whose mothers were smoking during their pregnancies. It is supposed that smoking can influence nervous system both directly and indirectly. Internationally coordinated study ELSPAC (European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood) is providing unique opportunity for observing different factors occuring in life environment of parent couples during the pregnancy and after the childbirth and analyse them in relation with both somatic and mental development of the child and its health status. Women from Brno and Znojmo district filled the questionnaires at the end of confinement and provided information about their smoking in the last two months of pregnancy and after the delivery, and data about their relationship towards the child after the delivery and during the confinement were explored as well as data about behaviour of the child. Study showed reduced contact of smoking mother and child: children of smoking mothers were more often isolated from their mother in maternity hospitals (9,4% vs. 6,0%), and they were more often admitted to hospital (8,4% vs. 4,3%) during confinement. Though most of parents gave very warm relationship to children, some exceptions occured: more women among smokers gave that they did not develop full emotional relationship to the child during whole confinement (1,7% vs. 0,7%), and among smokers were also more of them who usually react belatedly to the needs of the child expressed by his crying (4,3% vs. 2,9%). The lower socio-economic status of mothers contributed to this way of their behaviour to even greater extent. |