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G Aurelius

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PubMed1989

Psychomotor and mental development during infancy. Relation to psychosocial conditions and health. Part IV of a longitudinal study of children in a new Stockholm suburb.

This article presents the fourth substudy in a Swedish research project of a birth cohort of children in a newly-built Stockholm suburb. The aims are to follow and to describe their mental development by prospective methods. Here we present the results of the one-year follow-up. The children's mental development, measured with the Griffiths' Development Scales, and their behaviour in the test situation and during the home visit are described. These results are related to various psychosocial background factors (such as the parents' ages, number of siblings, form of custody), home environment factors (the parents' mental disease, addictions and criminality) and the children's physical health and development. Children with deviant behaviour during the home visits are described separately. Of 640 women who paid their first visit to the maternal welfare centers in a new Stockholm suburb during one prospective year, 532 (85%) were interviewed with regard to 41 stress factors forming a "Life stress score" (LSS). The interviews were supplemented with data from hospital, social welfare and police records concerning the expectant mother and the father. The 532 mothers were divided into three groups according to the degree of psychosocial stress (194 without psychosocial stress, 171 with severe psychosocial stress and 167 in an intermediate group). The pregnancies and deliveries of all mothers were evaluated. The physical health and development (using information from the child welfare clinics) and the mental health and development (using information from home visits and testings) were studied during infancy in 452 children (226 boys and 226 girls)--i.e. 77% of all children born in the suburb during the year. The children were tested with the Griffiths' Development Scales and their behaviour during the test was observed on home visits by the same psychologist (L.N.) at the age of 10 months (79 boys, 73 girls) or 14 months (92 boys, 107 girls), or about the age of 18 months (55 boys, 46 girls). The test results are mainly reported by descriptive methods. In summary, the results of the evaluation of the children's mental health during the first year of life, generally showed average developmental quotients. However, 20% of the children had values below the average. Thirty-two per cent of the children with low test results (less than -1 standard deviation on the total test) came from homes with serious psychosocial stress and 29% from homes with a mild degree of psychosocial stress. Of the nine children who had generally very low scores in the Griffiths' evaluation, seven came from homes with psychosocial stress.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

Child Behavior↗
PubMed1987

Psychosocial factors and physical health during the first year of life. Children in a new Stockholm suburb. A prospective longitudinal study. III.

The study is part of a longitudinal research project of a cohort of 501 children in a Stockholm suburb. The aim of the project is to clarify the relation between the children's health and development and their home environment. The present work deals with the children's physical health during their first year of life and comparisons were made between infants in families suffering or not suffering from psychosocial stress. Indications of psychosocial stress in the homes include reports of alcohol abuse, mental disease or criminality in one or both of the parents. Judging by reports from child welfare centres and hospital records, children from homes with psychosocial stress do not have a higher rate of somatic illnesses, retarded psychomotor development and psychosomatic problems than the control children.

Adult↗
PubMed1987

Psychosocial factors and pregnancy outcome. Part two of a prospective longitudinal study of children in a new Stockholm suburb.

In a current prospective sociomedical study of families in a Stockholm suburb, their home environments were investigated through interviews with the mothers on their first visit to a maternity health centre when pregnant, and through data obtained from various records. In a sample of 498 mothers, 109 women with psychosocial difficulties were compared with 255 women of the same age but who were not psychosocially deprived. While taking into account biomedical risk factors and parity, it appeared that there was little difference between the groups with regard to frequency of complications in pregnancy, delivery or in the newborn infant. The existence of supportive medical and social factors could be one explanation as to why anticipated differences between the groups were not observed.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

Adjustment and behaviour of Finnish and Southern European immigrant children in Stockholm. I. The teachers' assessment.

The adjustment and behaviour of immigrant schoolchildren were studied by means of teacher interviews. The material consisted of 50 Finnish and 37 southern European children. For comparison, 44 Swedish migrant children were also sampled. All had settled in the County of Stockholm three years prior to the study. Swedish children who had lived in the county for more than four years served as controls. In the teachers' opinions the immigrants as a whole had adjustment difficulties more often than the controls, but the proportion of children with such difficulties was no higher among the immigrant children. Compared with the controls the immigrant children showed a higher frequency of symptoms relating to a disordered self-esteem. The immigrant children were also considered to have a lower status and to be less trustworthy than the controls. The schooling of these children demands serious attention in order to prevent discrimination and to promote a feeling of personal worth among the children.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1978

A longitudinal study of oral health in immigrant children in Sweden.

Children immigrating into Sweden from Finland and Southern Europe (Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey) were subjected to a longitudinal study on caries activity and gingival condition. For each immigrant child a Swedish "twin" of the same sex and age was used as a control. Out of 124 pairs originally examined, 75 were reexamined after a 2 1/2-year stay in Sweden. The study showed that on arrival in Sweden the Finnish children had more caries and a higher Gingival Index (GI) than the controls and that they acquired more carious lesions during their stay in this country. Their GI, however, did not develop less favorably than that of the Swedish controls. The South-European children did not seem to have more carious lesions than the Swedish controls on arriving, nor did they seem to acquire more carious lesions during the period of observation. Their GI was higher at the first examination but the change in this index ran parallel with that of the controls. It was concluded that the children immigrating from Finland should be considered a risk group with regard to oral health.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1978

Pregnancy and delivery among immigrants.

Risk factors during pregnancy and delivery of immigrant women are analysed. Individual birth delivery records of 1 235 immigrant women and of 412 Swedish women are studied. Most of the immigrants--65%--were Scandinavians, while 10% had come from Southern Europe and 4% were non-Europeans. The immigrant groups differed somewhat amongst themselves, and also vis-à-vis the Swedes in some social and demographic respects. Participation in antenatal care was not lower among the immigrants than in the control group, but the former did not attend antenatal exercises to the same extent. The perinatal mortality and prematurity rates were 1.5% and 5%--about the same as among the Swedish women. The rate of premature delivery was found to be related to the duration of residence in Sweden. Women who had lived less than one year in this country more often delivered prematurely than did the more settled immigrant women. Further studies on the emotional reactions of immigrant women during pregnancy and delivery are proposed.

Adaptation, Psychological↗