2022
DOI: 10.1097/psy.0000000000001066
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The Effects of a Prenatal Mindfulness Intervention on Infant Autonomic and Behavioral Reactivity and Regulation

Abstract: Objective Maternal health and wellness during pregnancy are associated with long-term health outcomes in children. The current study examined whether infants of women who participated in a mindfulness-based intervention during pregnancy that reduced levels of stress and depression, increased physical activity, and improved glucose tolerance differed on biobehavioral markers of psychopathological and physical health risk compared with infants of women who did not. Methods … Show more

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“…Results from exploratory analyses on the potential protective effect of neighborhood resources and opportunities were also null. Our measure of neighborhood quality, the distress during pregnancy have been shown to have intergenerational benefits (Noroña-Zhou et al, 2022). Current findings suggest that these policies and programs may benefit the prevention childhood internalizing problems.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 75%
“…Results from exploratory analyses on the potential protective effect of neighborhood resources and opportunities were also null. Our measure of neighborhood quality, the distress during pregnancy have been shown to have intergenerational benefits (Noroña-Zhou et al, 2022). Current findings suggest that these policies and programs may benefit the prevention childhood internalizing problems.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 75%
“…Notably, the evidence from more socioeconomically, racially, ethnically, and regionally diverse samples appears to align with the patterns found in samples with lower risk. For example, across our 3-cohort U.S.-based sample of sociodemographically diverse mother-child dyads from six distinct geographic regions, we found consistent patterns of findings for maternal childhood and pregnancy adversity on child mental health in early and middle childhood, in the full national sample and when the sample was restricted to various subsets of the seven data collection sites (Bush et al, 2023;Noroña-Zhou et al, 2022). Although there are certainly differences across countries in culture, policies, and perinatal care and within countries in terms of exposure to harms and access to resources, the relative consistency of associations found across the literature suggest associations can be expected in a range of populations and are important for all societies to address.…”
Section: Generalizability Of Findings Across Populationsmentioning
confidence: 53%
“…Very recently, experimental and quasi-experimental evidence in humans has provided exciting evidence that positive inputs, and resultant decreases in distress or poor health during pregnancy, can lead to improvements in child outcomes. For example, our team found that infants born to women who participated in an 8-week group-based wellness intervention that reduced stress and depression showed more optimal sympathetic nervous system and behavioral regulation stress responses to a laboratory stressor than infants in the treatment as usual group (Noroña-Zhou et al, 2022). A small randomized controlled trial of a nutritionþexercise intervention during pregnancy found that babies born to women in the intervention group demonstrated greater expressive language and general adaptive behavior on the Bayley at age 1, although no differences were seen for cognitive, receptive language, motor, or socioemotional outcomes (Amani et al, 2023).…”
Section: Can We Leverage Intervention To Positively Program Offspring...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…It has also been suggested that mindfulness-based interventions delivered during the perinatal period enhance the pregnant individual’s capacity for coping adaptively with prenatal challenges and parenting stressors that emerge during the prenatal and early infancy period, with benefits that may extend to mothers and offspring (Duncan & Bardacke, 2010). Our recently published research indicates that the MIND was associated with differences in offspring physiological and behavioral reactivity and regulation; infants born to women in MIND had more salutary profiles of biobehavioral reactivity and regulation than did infants born to women TAU (Noroña-Zhou et al, 2022). It is possible that intervention-related improvements in children’s physiological and behavioral functioning made parenting easier for women, improving parenting self-efficacy and subsequent maternal depressive symptoms (Somers et al, 2021).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 96%