The measure consists of 15 age-appropriate, maternal response items.
The maternal NCATS items assess maternal sensitivity to infant's cues, response to infant's distress, and fostering of infant's social-emotional and cognitive growth [ 14].
Fish consumption was the only maternal dietary item associated with POPs, involving higher ΣPCBs, ΣBDEs, HCB, and β-HCH concentrations in newborns with maternal fish consumption above the median (Table 1).
These maternal-report items included the extent to which the child "cheats or tells lies," "bullies or is cruel or mean to others," "does not feel sorry after misbehavior," "breaks things deliberately," "is disobedient at school," and "has trouble getting along with teachers".
A parent/carer completed a questionnaire including the following items: maternal and paternal highest education level and birthplace; residential postal area code; and primary language spoken at home.
The checklist item regarding maternal HIV was the item checked with the least frequency (15%).
A 14-item maternal competence scale measured women's sense of confidence in their maternal role [ 25].
The 20-item Maternal Cognitions about Infant Sleep Questionnaire (MCISQ) [ 25] has 5 subscales including: limit setting (ability to resist infant demands), anger (anger, regret and helplessness), doubt (uncertainty regarding ability as a parent), feeding (belief about the importance of feeding to settle and concerns about child going hungry) and safety (concerns about cot death).
A 112-item questionnaire on maternity care from pregnancy, through labour and birth, to postpartum care, and including items on maternal socio-demographic, migration and obstetrical characteristics, and perceptions of care, has been created - the Migrant Friendly Maternity Care Questionnaire MFMCQQ) – in three languages (English, French and Spanish).
With respect to CBIs coordinated from Turkey, vouchers have been used to support communities with access to food, livelihoods, non-food items, and maternal health services (OCHA 2016) Cash transfers have been a less-used modality.
