Asking About Childhood Adversity in the Prenatal Care Setting: Cross-Sectional Associations with Maternal Health and Mental Health Outcomes.

Objectives: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with poor physical and mental health outcomes in pregnancy, prompting many care agencies to ask about ACEs as part of routine care. However, limited research has been conducted in the clinical setting to demonstrate associations between ACEs and maternal health (i.e.

Maternal-Child Health Outcomes from Pre- to Post-Implementation of a Trauma-Informed Care Initiative in the Prenatal Care Setting: A Retrospective Study.

Background: There has been an increase in use of trauma-informed care (TIC) approaches, which can include screening for maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) during prenatal care. However, there is a paucity of research showing that TIC approaches are associated with improvements in maternal or offspring health outcomes. Using retrospective file review, the current study evaluated whether differences in pregnancy health and infant birth outcomes were observed from before to after the implementation of a TIC approach in a low-risk maternity clinic, serving women of low medical risk.

Does screening for maternal ACEs in prenatal care predict pregnancy health risk above and beyond demographic and routine mental health screening?

Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including abuse, neglect, and/or household dysfunction, are associated with physical and mental health difficulties in pregnancy and the postpartum period. These associations have prompted the adoption of screening for ACEs in prenatal care settings; however, little is known about whether asking about ACEs in the prenatal care context is additive to other forms of routine prenatal demographic and mental health screening.

Objective: To identify whether ACEs are predictive of cumulative pregnancy health risk and identify whether ACEs predict maternal health risks in pregnancy above and beyond screening for financial stress, depression, and anxiety.

Swarm-cell differentiation in Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium results in elevated resistance to multiple antibiotics.

Although a wealth of knowledge exists about the molecular and biochemical mechanisms governing the swimming motility of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, its surface swarming behavior has not been extensively characterized. When inoculated onto a semisolid agar medium supplemented with appropriate nutrients, serovar Typhimurium undergoes a morphological differentiation whereby single cells hyperflagellate and elongate into nonseptate, multinucleate swarm cells. Swarm migration is a collective behavior of groups of cells.