Cumulative cortisol concentrations in hair of patients with atopy are lower than in healthy subjects and are not related to their perceived stress experience

Soláriková, Petra; Karailievova, Lucia; Rajčáni, Jakub; Brezina, Igor; Ježová, Daniela

doi:10.1080/10253890.2020.1825673

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“…For example, one recent study showed higher child HCC was associated with greater food insecurity (Ling et al, 2019) while another showed no association between these variables (Distel et al, 2019). In addition to the theories related to child emotional experience discussed above, another theory that could explain the lack of association with child HCC is that prolonged stress exposure can result in a blunted cortisol response, although this has only been shown in studies examining HCC in non-Latinx populations (Dowd et al, 2009;Koumantarou Malisiova et al, 2020;Ouellette et al, 2015;Raffington et al, 2018;Solarikova et al, 2020). According to this theory, a family's chronic stress from the inability to meet household social needs results in a dampening of the child's ability to mount a physiologic stress response.…”

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Household Social Needs, Emotional Functioning, and Stress in Low-Income Latinx Children and their Mothers

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Latinx families may be particularly vulnerable to emotional dysfunction, due to higher rates of economic hardship and complex social influences in this population. Little is known about the impact of environmental stressors such as unmet social needs and maternal stress on the emotional health of Latinx children from low-income families. We conducted secondary analyses using survey and biomarker data from 432 Latinx children and mothers collected in a separate study. We used binomial and multinomial logistic regression to test if household social needs, or maternal perceived stress or hair cortisol concentration (HCC), predicted child measures of emotional functioning or child HCC, independent of relevant sociodemographic factors. Approximately 40% of children in the sample had symptoms consistent with emotional dysfunction, and over 37% of households reported five or more social needs. High perceived maternal stress predicted higher odds of child emotional dysfunction (OR = 2.15; 95% CI [1.14, 4.04]; p = 0.01), and high maternal HCC was positively associated with high child HCC (OR = 10.60; 95% CI [4.20, 26.74]; p < 0.01). Most individual household social needs, as well as the level of household social need, were not independently associated with child emotional dysfunction or child HCC. Our findings begin to define a framework for understanding emotional health, stress, and resilience when caring for Latinx children and mothers living with high levels of social need, and the need for integrated mental health and social needs screening and interventions in settings that serve this population.

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