Perspective on racial/ethnic birth weight.

Objective: Comprehensive birth weight analyses of single primiparous infants of Samoan, Caucasian, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian/Part Hawaiian, Japanese racial ethnic groups. Sampling of intrauterine growth designed to reflect antecedent intra- and extra-environmental factors and insure uniform racial-ethnic data for any later genetic and phenotypic birth weight modeling.

Study Design: Based upon predetermined relevant gestational age criteria, 121, 197 single primiparous infants birth weight records analyzed.

Childbirth overseas: the experience of Japanese women in Hawaii.

The purpose of this study is to investigate which kinds of stress women experience during childbirth in a foreign country and to explore whether childbirth in a foreign country influences women's mental health. The study was a quantitative and qualitative mixed study. Forty-five Japanese women, born and raised in Japan and who gave birth in Hawaii, USA, were telephone-interviewed within 1 year after childbirth.

Samoan parental ethnicity and infant birth-weight in Hawai'i.

Objective: Comparative study of racial-ethnic (RE) gestational age (GA) mean birth-weight (MBW) differences for 1968-1994.

Study Design: Descriptive statistical analyses of 314,633 State of Hawai'i live birth certificates: birthweights of 500-5000 grams, gestational ages 24-42 weeks, and recorded Caucasian, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Japanese, Samoan, and Other RE parentage. Multiple regression analyses of single infant birth records were performed to adjust birth-weight for selected covariates and assess the independent effects of maternal and paternal RE on MBW.

Factors associated with ease of using community-based systems of care for CSHCN in Hawai'i.

Objectives: To study factors contributing to difficulty using community-based services by families of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) in Hawai'i.

Methods: Data source was the 2001 National Survey of Children With Special Health Care Needs. The study population included the 449 respondents who were surveyed after additional items were added to the original questionnaire.

Ethnic differences in the prevalence of overweight among young children in Hawaii.

Objectives: To compare the prevalence of overweight among young children of different ethnic backgrounds and describe the age pattern of overweight in early childhood.

Methods: Cross-sectional study of 21,911 children, 12 to 59 months old, participating in the Hawaii Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children in 1997-1998. They were grouped in eight ethnic categories.

Pregnancy outcomes among Whites and Filipinos: A paradoxical birth weight-neonatal mortality relationship.

Evidence from the Philippines suggests that, compared to Whites, infants born to Filipino women are more likely to be low birth weight. A paucity of information is available regarding birth outcomes of U.S.