Abuse history and health risk behaviors in pregnancy

Abstract

Alcohol and tobacco use during pregnancy were associated with a history of abuse. Health care professionals should consider this potential correlation when use of tobacco and alcohol in pregnancy is brought up.

Influence of childhood sexual abuse on pregnancy, delivery, and the early postpartum period in adult women

“…Women with a history of CSA may present increased health-risk behaviors such as nicotine abuse [46][47][48]50], alcohol abuse [45], and drug abuse [45,50,61] during pregnancy. Most authors found such a correlation, but there are also opposite results [1,46,48].…”

“…Of these 24 publications, original data were present in 10 studies [1,44 -51,56]. The main categories the data referred to were risk factors during pregnancy [1,[44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51], health complaints during pregnancy [47,48], pregnancy complications [48,51], use of any medication during pregnancy [48], surveillance of pregnancy [48,51], psychic strain during pregnancy [1,44,47,49,51], and memories of CSA during pregnancy [49,51,56].…”

“…Of the 43 eligible studies, 21 presented original data [1,18,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58], six were systematic and nonsystematic reviews [2,59 -63], seven were clinical experiences from medical health professionals dealing with pregnant women or specialists for preparation of labor [64 -69,79], three were personal experiences from women with CSA experiences [70 -72], and five others [73][74][75][76][77][78]80]. Of the original studies, one focused on unwanted pregnancies [58], and in two there was no differentiation between childhood and adult abuse experiences [18,57].…”

“…Of the 43 published manuscripts, 24 [1,2,[44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51]56,57,59,61,64,65,[67][68][69][70][71]73,74,77] focused on the association of CSA experiences and pregnancy in later life. Of these 24 publications, original data were present in 10 studies [1,44 -51,56].…”

Les troubles du comportement des femmes enceintes secondaires aux mauvais traitements antérieurement subis

“…De nombreux auteurs ont aussi souligné les conséquences de type post-traumatiques chez les patientes abusées, notamment des troubles comportementaux ou psychosomatiques comme les algies pelviennes ou les syndrome prémenstruels [24,25].…”