Titre : | Low birthweight and subsequent emotional and behavioural outcomes in 12-year-old children in Soweto, South Africa : findings from Birth to Twenty. (2009) |
Auteurs : | Farnaz SABET ; NORRIS (Shane-A) : ZAF. Birth to Twenty Research Programme. Department of Paediatrics and Child Health. University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburg. ; QUIGLEY (Maria-A) : GBR. National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit. University of Oxford. Oxford. ; Paul-G RAMCHANDANI ; RICHTER (Linda-M) : ZAF. Child Youth Family & Social Development (Cyfsd). Human Sciences Research Council. Durban. ; Alan STEIN ; Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. University of Oxford. Oxford. GBR |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | International journal of epidemiology (vol. 38, n° 4, 2009) |
Pagination : | 944-954 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Etat dépressif ; Prématurité ; Emotivité ; Comportement ; Enfant ; République sud africaine ; Facteur risque ; Epidémiologie ; Homme ; Afrique ; Affectivité |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS Dpt8R0xl. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background. The fetal origins hypothesis suggests that an adverse prenatal environment, indexed by low birthweight (LBW), may increase the risk of developing later disease. Recently the hypothesis has been extended to psychological outcomes, especially depression. The aim of this analysis was to test, for the first time in a developing country setting, the association between LBW and psychological symptoms, in Soweto, South Africa. Methods. A sample of 1029 children was drawn from Birth to Twenty, a longitudinal cohort followed from pregnancy to young adulthood. This sample completed the Youth Self Report at age 12 years, a validated psychological measure of behavioural and emotional adjustment. Scores were compared between LBW ( |