%0 Journal Article %J Prev Sci %D 2012 %T Maternal early life risk factors for offspring birth weight: findings from the add health study. %A Gavin, Amelia R %A Thompson, Elaine %A Rue, Tessa %A Guo, Yuqing %K Adolescent %K Child Abuse %K Depression %K Factor Analysis, Statistical %K Female %K Humans %K Infant, Low Birth Weight %K Infant, Newborn %K Longitudinal Studies %K Mothers %K Risk Factors %K Smoking %K Social Class %K Substance-Related Disorders %X

The aim of this study was to examine the pathways that link mothers' early life socio economic status (SES) and mothers' experience of childhood maltreatment with birth weight among their later born offspring. Data were drawn from a nationally representative longitudinal survey of school-aged respondents, initially enrolled during adolescence in Wave I (1994-1995) and Wave II (1996) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and followed-up in adulthood in Wave III (2001-2002). Data on offspring birth weight were obtained from nulliparous females (Nā€‰=ā€‰1,897) who had given birth between Waves II and III. Analyses used structural equation modeling to examine the extent to which early life maternal risk predicted offspring birth weight, and demonstrated that maternal childhood SES and maternal childhood maltreatment predicted offspring birth weight through several mediated pathways. First, maternal adolescent substance use and prenatal cigarette use partially mediated the association between maternal childhood SES and offspring birth weight. Second, maternal adolescent depressive symptoms and adult SES partially mediated the association between maternal childhood SES and offspring birth weight. Third, adult SES partially mediated the association between maternal childhood SES and offspring birth weight. Fourth, maternal adolescent substance use and prenatal cigarette use partially mediated the association between maternal childhood maltreatment and offspring birth weight. Finally, maternal adolescent depressive symptoms and adult SES partially mediated the association between maternal childhood maltreatment and offspring birth weight. To our knowledge, this is the first study to identify maternal childhood maltreatment as an early life risk factor for offspring birth weight among a nationally representative sample of young women, and to demonstrate the mechanisms that link childhood SES and maltreatment to offspring birth weight. These findings suggest the importance of designing and implementing prevention and intervention strategies to address early life maternal social conditions in an effort to improve inter generational child health at birth.

%B Prev Sci %V 13 %P 162-72 %8 2012 Apr %G eng %N 2 %R 10.1007/s11121-011-0253-2 %0 Journal Article %J Am J Ind Med %D 2010 %T Smoking and the Asian American workforce in the National Latino and Asian American Study. %A de Castro, A B %A Garcia, Gabriel %A Gee, Gilbert C %A Tsai, Jenny Hsin-Chun %A Rue, Tessa %A Takeuchi, David T %K Adolescent %K Adult %K Aged %K Asian Americans %K Cross-Sectional Studies %K Employment %K Female %K Hispanic Americans %K Humans %K Interviews as Topic %K Male %K Middle Aged %K Occupations %K Prevalence %K Smoking %K United States %K Young Adult %X

BACKGROUND: Smoking among the Asian American workforce has not been extensively researched. This study examines smoking prevalence among a nationally representative sample of Asian Americans with an emphasis on occupational classification.

METHODS: Cross-sectional data come from the National Latino and Asian American Study. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to determine smoking prevalence by occupation, gender, and nativity, among 1,528 participants self-identifying as in the labor force.

RESULTS: Blue collar workers reported the highest smoking prevalence (32%) followed by unemployed (19%), other (17%), service (14%), and white collar (10%). Among both employed males and females, blue collar workers had the highest prevalence (45% and 18%, respectively). By nativity, smoking was highest among blue collar workers for immigrants (25%) and highest among the unemployed for U.S. born (16%). Blue collar employment was significantly associated with being a current smoker (OR = 2.52; 95% CI: 1.23-5.16; P < 0.05) controlling for demographics (e.g., age, gender, ethnic group, nativity, etc.).

CONCLUSIONS: Findings reveal that smoking differs by occupation among Asian Americans. Future research should examine factors explaining differences while considering gender and nativity.

%B Am J Ind Med %V 53 %P 171-8 %8 2010 Feb %G eng %N 2 %R 10.1002/ajim.20697