Prenatal alcohol exposure linked to behavior problems in teens -- Teens whose mothers drank alcohol regularly throughout the first trimester of pregnancy have three times increased risk of developing severe behavior problems.
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Medical Center analyzed data collected from 592 children and their mothers. The mothers were evaluated when four and seven months pregnant and shortly after childbirth and then, along with their children, when the children were 8 months old, 18 months old and 3, 6, 10, 14 and 16 years old.
The quantity, frequency and patterns of alcohol use -- including beer, wine and liquor -- by the women during pregnancy were summarized as average daily alcohol consumption.
When the children were 16 years old, those whose mothers had consumed, on average, one or more alcoholic drinks a day in the first trimester of pregnancy were three times more likely to meet the criteria for conduct disorder than were teens whose mothers had consumed less than one drink a day or no alcohol at all, the investigators found.
Conduct disorder refers to a pattern of serious behavior problems that last for more than a year and includes, according to the researchers, such things as property destruction, aggression toward people and animals, dishonesty or theft, and serious rule violations.
The study is published in the March issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Information from:
http://www.babycenter.com/204_prenatal-alcohol-exposure-linked-to-behavior-problems-in-tee_10349076.bc
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Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Medical Center analyzed data collected from 592 children and their mothers. The mothers were evaluated when four and seven months pregnant and shortly after childbirth and then, along with their children, when the children were 8 months old, 18 months old and 3, 6, 10, 14 and 16 years old.
The quantity, frequency and patterns of alcohol use -- including beer, wine and liquor -- by the women during pregnancy were summarized as average daily alcohol consumption.
When the children were 16 years old, those whose mothers had consumed, on average, one or more alcoholic drinks a day in the first trimester of pregnancy were three times more likely to meet the criteria for conduct disorder than were teens whose mothers had consumed less than one drink a day or no alcohol at all, the investigators found.
Conduct disorder refers to a pattern of serious behavior problems that last for more than a year and includes, according to the researchers, such things as property destruction, aggression toward people and animals, dishonesty or theft, and serious rule violations.
The study is published in the March issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Information from:
http://www.babycenter.com/204_prenatal-alcohol-exposure-linked-to-behavior-problems-in-tee_10349076.bc
If someone you know needs help to stop drinking call today! You can call this agency, your doctor, an alcohol treatment program, social worker, pastor, or a clinic. There are many people and agencies that want to help!
Christian Child Placement Service
e-mail: adopt@nmcch.org
http://www.adoptnewmexico.org/
http://www.facebook.com/Adoption.aChoiceforLife
1-800-553-2229 (BABY) ex.14
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