To examine preterm, near-term, and term mothers' self-reported quality of life in the early postpartum period.
The percentage of variation in infants' cognitive development we can explain with mothering behaviors doubles when using a multi-method approach versus relying solely on mothers' self-reports.
To determine race, the researchers used the children's mothers' self-report of race as well as the distribution of 150 genetic markers in the children's blood, which track ancestry.
Similar maximal umbilical cord plasma cocaine levels were documented in neonates [22], presumably hours after their mothers self-administered cocaine.
All data were based on mothers' self-reports.
Mothers' self-referent interpretations were found to mediate this relationship.
Children were classified on the basis of mothers' self-reported maternal psychiatric disorder status.
Ethnicity of children and mothers was based on mothers' self-report.
Other studies provide evidence that mothers' self-reported attitudes correspond with their child rearing behaviors [ 39].
Length of gestation was determined by mothers' self-reported last menstrual period and recorded delivery date.
It may be that the more educated mothers self-selected to respond to this survey.
