Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Prenatal Smoking and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Children Studied From Childhood to Late Adolescence
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Participants, Design, and Procedures
Subjects participated in a longitudinal general population study on the development of children from early childhood onward (described in detail elsewhere31). Children were assessed at age 2 years (not included in this study) and at 5, 10 to 11, and 18 years of age. The sample was randomly drawn and stratified by age and sex from the inoculation register of the Dutch province of Zuid-Holland and from the Rotterdam municipal population register in 1989 (age 2 years). This resulted in a sample of
Descriptive Statistics
The final sample in this study consisted of 396 children (201 boys, 50.8%; 195 girls). For 297 of the 396 (75 %) children, data were complete. No significant differences with regard to sex of the child (51.5% versus 48.5% boys; χ21 = .27, p > .05, ϕ = .03) or prenatal smoking status (11.1% versus 5.7% smoking during pregnancy; χ21 = 3.28, p >.05, ϕ = .09) were found among children with complete data and children with incomplete data. However, children with missing data were more likely to come
Discussion
This study sought to clarify the association of prenatal smoking with the course of internalizing as well as externalizing problems from ages 5 to 18 years. For externalizing outcomes, links with prenatal smoking had already been established.1, 3, 4, 5, 6 For internalizing problems, the association with prenatal smoking was uncertain, especially because co-occurring externalizing problems had not been adequately controlled for. The main conclusion is that even after controlling for possible
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This study was supported by grant 224 from the Sophia Foundation for Medical Research.
This article is the subject of an editorial by Dr. Kathleen A. Pajer in this issue.