Women's occupational status during pregnancy and preventive behaviour and health outcomes between 1998 and 2016 in France.

Background: Despite an improvement in preventive care and perinatal health in previous decades, social inequalities persist, particularly to the disadvantage of isolated or unemployed women. The objective was to analyse the evolution between 1998 and 2016 of the association between women's occupational status and perinatal outcomes.

Methods: Data came from four national surveys performed in 1998, 2003, 2010 and 2016.

Exploring the socioeconomic disparities of maternal body mass index: a national study in France.

Background: The prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased in various countries. Normal weight before pregnancy is important to protect maternal and newborn health. This study aimed to describe the evolution of body mass index (BMI) before pregnancy in France and explore its association with two measures of socioeconomic status (SES), education and household income.

Intimate Partner Violence Against Women During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy: A Multicenter Survey Involving Anti-Violence Centers.

This study explores intimate partner violence (IPV) evolution during the lockdown with a sample of 238 women (44% cohabitating and 56% not cohabitating with the perpetrator), attending five antiviolence centers in Italy (June-September 2020). Questions included 12 items on IPV and, for each item, a question about whether violence increased/stayed the same/decreased during lockdown; an indicator of IPV modifications was constructed. Two distinct patterns, confirmed after adjustment for socio-demographic factors, emerged: IPV increased for 28% of cohabitating and decreased for 56% of non-cohabitating women.

Psychological symptoms and intensity of partner violence: A study of women attending an anti-violence center in Italy.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) can seriously affect the health of victims. Our aims were to analyze the impact of IPV intensity on psychological symptoms in a sample of 151 victimized women (21-74 years old). We collected data through anonymous-auto-administrated questionnaires from a sample of women attending five Anti-violence centers in Italy, and assessed exposure to psychological, physical, sexual, verbal, and stalking partner violence in the last year.

The Impact of Maternal Depression and Parent-Child Interactions on Risk of Parasitic Infections in Early Childhood: A Prospective Cohort in Benin.

Objectives: Maternal depression occurs in 13-20% of women from low-income countries, which is associated with negative child health outcomes, including diarrheal disease. However, few studies have investigated its impact on child risk of infectious disease. We studied the impacts of maternal depressive symptoms and parent-child interactions, independently, on the risk of Plasmodium falciparum malaria and soil-transmitted helminth infection in Beninese children.

Use of labour neuraxial analgesia according to maternal immigration status: a national cross-sectional retrospective population-based study in France.

Background: Disparities in neuraxial analgesia use for childbirth by maternal origin have been reported in high-resource countries. We explored the association between maternal immigrant status (characterised separately by geographic continental origin and Human Development Index [HDI] of maternal country of birth) and neuraxial analgesia use. We hypothesised that immigrant women from low-resource countries may have more limited access to neuraxial analgesia than native French women.

Does women's place of birth affect their opportunity for an informed choice about Down syndrome screening? A population-based study in France.

Background: To examine disparities by maternal place of birth in the opportunity to make an informed choice about Down syndrome screening, in France, where the national guidelines recommend that physicians offer it to all pregnant women.

Methods: We used population-based data from the nationally representative French Perinatal Surveys in 2010 and 2016 (N=24,644 women) to analyze the opportunity for an informed choice for prenatal screening, measured by a composite indicator.

Results: Among the 24 644 women in the study, 20 612 (83.

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Introduction: As part of the National Health Strategy, the High Council for Public Health (HCSP) was tasked with leading a reflection on a “comprehensive and concerted child health policy”. Policy-making requires relevant knowledge and statistical benchmarks. It therefore seemed useful to examine the French statistical system and active research topics.

Repeat induced abortion and adverse childhood experiences in Aquitaine, France: a cross-sectional survey.

Objective: The aim of the study was to analyse the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and repeat induced abortion, with regard to the potential effects of social deprivation and intimate partner violence.

Methods: An observational cross-sectional survey was conducted across each of the 25 abortion centres in Aquitaine, France, from 15 June to 15 September 2009. The sample comprised 806 women >18 years who had requested an induced abortion.

Physical Violence During Pregnancy in France: Frequency and Impact on the Health of Expectant Mothers and New-Borns.

Objectives Even during pregnancy women may suffer from violence. We estimated the prevalence of physical abuse during pregnancy, we analyzed the main risk factors and described the relationship between physical violence, psychological wellbeing and pregnancy outcome. Methods We used a national representative sample of births, in all public and private maternity units, in 2016 in France.

Mental distress and sexual harassment in Italian university students.

Only a few studies have analyzed the association between sexual harassment (SH) and mental health controlling for other types of violence. The aim of this study was to describe SH among male and female university students and analyze the association between harassment and mental distress controlling for sexual violence. An observational survey was conducted at Trieste University (Italy).

Mother's education and offspring asthma risk in 10 European cohort studies.

Highly prevalent and typically beginning in childhood, asthma is a burdensome disease, yet the risk factors for this condition are not clarified. To enhance understanding, this study assessed the cohort-specific and pooled risk of maternal education on asthma in children aged 3-8 across 10 European countries. Data on 47,099 children were obtained from prospective birth cohort studies across 10 European countries.

Persistent maternal depressive symptoms trajectories influence children's IQ: The EDEN mother-child cohort.

Background: This study assessed the association between timing and course of maternal depression from pregnancy onwards and children's cognitive development at ages 5 to 6. Potential interaction effects with child sex and family socioeconomic status were explored.

Methods: One thousand thirty-nine mother-child pairs from the French EDEN mother-child birth cohort were followed from 24 to 28 weeks of pregnancy onwards.

Disordered Eating Behaviors and Sexual Harassment in Italian Male and Female University Students.

The aim of this study is to describe sexual harassment among Italian university students and analyze the relationship between harassment and disordered eating behaviors. An observational survey was conducted among university students at Trieste University (Italy) in spring 2014. Students answered an anonymous self-administered questionnaire about sexual harassment, including three domains-sexual harassment, unwanted comments on physical appearance, cyber-harassment-and disordered eating behaviors.

Occupational, social and medical characteristics of early prenatal leave in France.

Background: In France, most women of childbearing age work. The prenatal leave law in France protects women during pregnancy and their employment. We aimed to describe how long before delivery women stopped working and analyse the association between occupational, social and medical factors and early prenatal leave (before 24 weeks' gestation).