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Women who continue to smoke during pregnancy put themselves and their fetuses at serious risk for complications. Various smoking cessation programs have been designed that specifically target pregnant smokers. Longitudinal studies, however, have shown that there is a group of women who are unable to quit smoking while pregnant. Women from a rural area of the Mid-West (N=299) were interviewed postpartum...
Objectives: This study estimates the prevalence of stressful life events and physical abuse among North Carolina women prior to infant delivery, and examines potential associations between abuse and the other stressors. Methods: Data were from the North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, a statewide representative survey of over 2,600 postpartum women. The survey assessed women's...
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