@article{ref1,
title="Antenatal and early childhood exposures associated with non-fatal infant injury: evidence from a longitudinal birth cohort in New Zealand",
journal="Injury prevention",
year="2023",
author="Ghebreab, Luam and Kool, Bridget and Lee, Arier and Morton, Susan",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To identify antenatal and early childhood exposures of unintentional injury among infants in New Zealand (NZ). <br><br>METHOD: The theoretical life-course framework of child injury prevention domains was utilised to analyse data from a prospective longitudinal NZ birth cohort (Growing Up in NZ). Risk and protective factors for injury were identified using Robust Poisson regression models. <br><br>RESULT: Among children included for the analysis(n=6304), 52% were male, 55% were born to European mothers, and 37% lived in a household with high levels of deprivation. Mothers reported that 6% of infants (n=406) had sustained at least one injury by 9 months. Multivariate analysis showed injury risk among single mothers with antenatal depression were more than twice that (IRR=2.20) of children of mothers with partners and without depression. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Understanding antenatal risk and protective factors for infant injury will assist in implementing injury prevention programmes or modifying the existing policies that affect these vulnerable age groups.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1353-8047",
doi="10.1136/ip-2023-044845",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip-2023-044845"
}