Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and associations with prenatal substance use and poor infant outcomes in a multi-country cohort of mothers: a latent class analysis

• Main Authors: Chad Lance Hemady (Author), Lydia Gabriela Speyer (Author), Aja Louise Murray (Author), Ruth Harriet Brown (Author), Franziska Meinck (Author), Deborah Fry (Author), Huyen Do (Author), Siham Sikander (Author), Bernadette Madrid (Author), Asvini Fernando (Author), Susan Walker (Author), Michael Dunne (Author), Sarah Foley (Author), Claire Hughes (Author), Joseph Osafo (Author), Adriana Baban (Author), Diana Taut (Author), Catherine L. Ward (Author), Vo Van Thang (Author), Pasco Fearon (Author), Mark Tomlinson (Author), Sara Valdebenito (Author), Manuel Eisner (Author)
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• Published: BMC, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background This paper enumerates and characterizes latent classes of adverse childhood experiences and investigates how they relate to prenatal substance use (i.e., smoking, alcohol, and other drugs) and poor infant outcomes (i.e., infant prematurity and low birthweight) across eight low- a...