Journal article
Differences in folic acid use, prenatal care, smoking, and drinking in early pregnancy by occupation
Preventive medicine, Vol.55(4), pp.341-345
10/2012
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.07.015
PMCID: PMC4591538
PMID: 22846503
Abstract
To describe differences in four high risk periconceptional behaviors (lack of folic acid supplementation, lack of early prenatal care, smoking, and drinking) by maternal occupation.
Analyses were conducted among women in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study who delivered liveborn infants without birth defects. Periconceptional occupational data were collected using a computer-assisted telephone interview and occupational coding was performed using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification System. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to determine whether prevalence of behaviors differed between occupational groups.
Subjects included 5153 women employed during early pregnancy from 1997 to 2007. Compared to women in management, business, science, and arts occupations, women in other occupations (e.g., service occupations) were significantly more likely to engage in all four high risk behaviors. Specifically, women in food preparation/serving-related occupations were significantly more likely to engage in all four behaviors compared to women in all other occupational groups (odds ratios: 1.8–3.0), while women in education/training/library occupations were significantly less likely to do so (odds ratios: 0.2–0.5).
We identified several occupational groups with an increased prevalence of high-risk maternal behaviors during pregnancy. Our findings could aid in developing interventions targeted towards women in these occupational groups.
► We evaluated four common periconceptional behaviors by maternal occupation. ► Several occupations had higher prevalences of these risk behaviors. ► Our findings could guide workplace interventions to promote perinatal health.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Differences in folic acid use, prenatal care, smoking, and drinking in early pregnancy by occupation
- Creators
- A.J Agopian - Human Genetics Center, Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health, 1200 Herman Pressler Dr., Houston, TX 77030, USAPhilip J Lupo - Human Genetics Center, Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health, 1200 Herman Pressler Dr., Houston, TX 77030, USAMichele L Herdt-Losavio - New York State Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, 547 River Street, Troy, NY 12180, USAPeter H Langlois - Birth Defects Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, Texas Department of State Health Services, PO Box 149347, MC 1964, Austin, TX 78714-9347, USACarissa M Rocheleau - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USALaura E Mitchell - Human Genetics Center, Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health, 1200 Herman Pressler Dr., Houston, TX 77030, USANational Birth Defects Prevention Study
- Contributors
- Paul A Romitti (Contributor) - University of Iowa, Epidemiology
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Preventive medicine, Vol.55(4), pp.341-345
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.07.015
- PMID
- 22846503
- PMCID
- PMC4591538
- ISSN
- 0091-7435
- eISSN
- 1096-0260
- Grant note
- name: Texas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention; DOI: 10.13039/100000030, name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, award: U01DD000494; name: Texas Department of State Health Services
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2012
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Biostatistics
- Record Identifier
- 9984214677902771
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