Journal article
Children's language abilities at age 10 and exposure to intimate partner violence in early childhood: Results of an Australian prospective pregnancy cohort study
Laura J Conway, Fallon Cook, Petrea Cahir, Stephanie Brown, Sheena Reilly, Deirdre Gartland, Fiona Mensah, Rebecca Giallo
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2021
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Approximately one in four children in Australia have mothers who experience intimate partner violence (IPV). These children are at risk of poor mental health. Less is known about their language outcomes, despite evidence that childhood adversity threatens neurodevelopment, and the home environment effects language development. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to examine the relationship between early childhood IPV exposure and language outcomes (receptive vocabulary, general language, pragmatic language) at age 10, including the influence of maternal depressive symptoms. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: Participants were 615 mothers and their first-born child participating in a prospective, ..
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Awarded by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Awarded by NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship
Awarded by NHMRC Safer Families Centre
Awarded by Melbourne Children's LifeCourse postdoctoral fellowship - Royal Children's Hospital Foundation
Awarded by NHMRC Career Development Fellowships
Funding Acknowledgements
The Maternal Health Study (MHS) was supported by project grants from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (199222, 433006, 491205), & Australian Rotary Health. SB holds a NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (1103976). RG & FM previously held NHMRC Career Development Fellowships (1123900, 1111160). LC & DG are postdoctoral researchers supported by the NHMRC Safer Families Centre (1116690). LC & FC are also supported by a Melbourne Children's LifeCourse postdoctoral fellowship, funded by Royal Children's Hospital Foundation grant (2018-984). LifeCourse acknowledges all collaborators, cohort representatives and participants; https://lifecourse.melbournechildrens.com/contact/for further details. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and may not reflect those of their organisational affiliations, nor of other collaborating individuals or organisations. Researchers at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute are supported by the Victorian Government Operational Infrastructure Support Program.