Journal article
Intimate partner violence and child outcomes at age 10: A pregnancy cohort
D Gartland, LJ Conway, R Giallo, FK Mensah, F Cook, K Hegarty, H Herrman, J Nicholson, S Reilly, H Hiscock, E Sciberras, SJ Brown
Archives of Disease in Childhood | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2021
Abstract
Objective Assess the mental health, physical health, cognitive and language development of 10-year old children in families where mothers have reported intimate partner violence (IPV) compared with children with no reported IPV exposure. Design Prospective pregnancy cohort. Maternal report of IPV (Composite Abuse Scale) at 1, 4 and 10 years. Maternal and direct assessment of child mental health (probable psychiatric diagnosis, anxiety and emotional/behavioural difficulties), cognition (IQ and executive function), language (general, pragmatic and receptive) and physical health at 10 years. Setting A subsample of 615 mother-child dyads drawn from a pregnancy cohort of 1507 nulliparous women re..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
The Maternal Health Study was supported by project grants from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC; #199222, #433006 and #491205) and Australian Rotary Health. Stephanie Brown holds an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (#1103976). Rebecca Giallo, Fiona Mensah and Emma Sciberras hold NHMRC Career Development Fellowships (#1123900, #1111160 and #1110688). Emma Sciberras holds a Veski Inspiring Women's Fellowship. Harriet Hiscock holds an NHMRC Practitioner fellowship (#1136222). Deirdre Gartland and Laura Conway are supported by the NHMRC Safer Families Centre (#1116690). Laura Conway and Fallon Cook hold Lifecourse Postdoctoral Fellowships supported by the Royal Children's Hospital Research Foundation. Research at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute is supported by the Victorian Government Operational Infrastructure Support Programme.