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Disaster in pregnancy: midwifery continuity positively impacts infant neurodevelopment, QF2011 study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, July 2018
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Title
Disaster in pregnancy: midwifery continuity positively impacts infant neurodevelopment, QF2011 study
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, July 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12884-018-1944-5
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Gabrielle Simcock, Sue Kildea, Sue Kruske, David P. Laplante, Guillaume Elgbeili, Suzanne King

Abstract

Research shows that continuity of midwifery carer in pregnancy improves maternal and neonatal outcomes. This study examines whether midwifery group practice (MGP) care during pregnancy affects infant neurodevelopment at 6-months of age compared to women receiving standard hospital maternity care (SC) in the context of a natural disaster. This prospective cohort study included 115 women who were affected by a sudden-onset flood during pregnancy. They received one of two models of maternity care: MGP or SC. The women's flood-related objective stress, subjective reactions, and cognitive appraisal of the disaster were assessed at recruitment into the study. At 6-months postpartum they completed the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ-3) on their infants' communication, fine and gross motor, problem solving, and personal-social skills. Greater maternal objective and subjective stress predicted worse infant outcomes. Even when controlling for maternal stress from the flood, infants of mothers who were in the MGP model of maternity care performed better than infants of mothers in SC on two of the five ASQ-3 domains (fine motor and problem solving) at 6-months of age. Furthermore, infants in the SC model were more likely to be identified as at risk for delayed development on these domains than infants in the MGP model of care. Continuity of midwifery care has positive effects on infant neurodevelopment when mothers experience disaster-related stress in pregnancy, with significantly better outcomes on two developmental domains at 6 months compared to infants whose mothers received standard hospital care.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 245 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 33 13%
Student > Master 29 12%
Lecturer 17 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 7%
Researcher 9 4%
Other 44 18%
Unknown 97 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 62 25%
Medicine and Dentistry 32 13%
Psychology 11 4%
Unspecified 8 3%
Social Sciences 6 2%
Other 23 9%
Unknown 103 42%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 122. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 April 2023.
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#344,678
of 25,497,142 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#38
of 4,806 outputs
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#7,324
of 341,774 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#2
of 116 outputs
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