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Title: Work-Related Psychosocial Stress and Risk of Preterm, Low Birthweight Delivery
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Homer, Charles J. James, Sherman A. Siegel, Earl |
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Work-Related Psychosocial Stress and Risk of Preterm, Low Birthweight Delivery American Journal of Public Health 80,2 (February 1990): 173-177. Also: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/80/2/173 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Public Health Association Keyword(s): Birthweight; Child Health; Childbearing; Employment; Job Hazards; Job Requirements; Maternal Employment; Occupations; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Pre/post Natal Health Care; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Stress; Working Conditions Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data on working pregnant women from the NLSY, this paper examined whether work-related stress increased a woman's risk of delivering a pre-term, low birthweight infant. Results indicated that young women working during pregnancy in jobs characterized by high exertion and low job control were somewhat more likely than were women who worked in other jobs to deliver a low birthweight, pre-term infant if they did not want to continue working. Occupational stress was not associated, however, with pre-term, low birthweight delivery for the sample as a whole. |
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Homer, Charles J., Sherman A. James and Earl Siegel. "Work-Related Psychosocial Stress and Risk of Preterm, Low Birthweight Delivery." American Journal of Public Health 80,2 (February 1990): 173-177.
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