Frost Lab

Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill

PUBLIC HEALTH & PREV MEDICINE

Chapel Hill · United States

NIH-funded
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NIH R01 · 2025

Promoting child respiratory health through novel psychosocial targets: An investigation of a maternal mental health intervention

ABSTRACT Respiratory problems during childhood, including reduced lung function and asthma symptoms, present a threat to healthy child development. There is increasing evidence linking prenatal and early childhood adversity, such as poverty, violence, or maternal depression, to multiple respiratory health problems over the lifecourse. Childhood adversity may be a promising target for prevention of respiratory problems, but has never been the focus of a randomized control trial. In addition, there is a dearth of longitudinal evidence on how childhood adversity impacts respiratory health from low resource settings, such as low-and-middle income countries (LMICs), where the majority of the…

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