NIH R01 · 2025
Mechanisms Linking Family Violence and Infant Health and Development in the Perinatal Period
PROJECT SUMMARY/ ABSTRACT Family violence, which includes intimate partner violence (IPV) and child maltreatment, is a significant public health problem and disproportionately affects low-income and minoritized women and children under one year of age. Family violence during the perinatal period, the months during and after pregnancy, has been linked to numerous health disparities intergenerationally, including elevated stress in mothers as well as increased risk of poor cardiometabolic health and socioemotional development in infants. IPV during pregnancy and its associations with maternal stress may also place infants at greater risk of child maltreatment and interfere with mother-infant…
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