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The Association between Maternal Stress and Childhood Eczema: A Systematic Review

Eczema is a chronic atopic disease that is highly prevalent among children worldwide. Identification of factors that may contribute to childhood eczema is needed in order to develop strategies in its prevention. Over the past decade, accumulating evidence has suggested a potential correlation betwee...

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Autores principales: Chan, Carmen W. H., Law, Bernard M. H., Liu, Yun-Hong, Ambrocio, Alexandra R. B., Au, Natasha, Jiang, Melody, Chow, Ka Ming
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5876940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29495329
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15030395
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author Chan, Carmen W. H.
Law, Bernard M. H.
Liu, Yun-Hong
Ambrocio, Alexandra R. B.
Au, Natasha
Jiang, Melody
Chow, Ka Ming
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description Eczema is a chronic atopic disease that is highly prevalent among children worldwide. Identification of factors that may contribute to childhood eczema is needed in order to develop strategies in its prevention. Over the past decade, accumulating evidence has suggested a potential correlation between the experience of stress by mothers and the risk of eczema development in their child. The present review attempts to provide an overview of the studies that contribute data on this correlation. The literature search was conducted using five databases, resulting in the inclusion of eleven studies in the review. The findings of these studies were summarized narratively. Further, an appraisal of the reporting quality of the included studies was conducted using a twelve-item checklist adapted from the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) checklist. Overall, the included studies showed that a positive correlation exists between the experience of stress among mothers and eczema risk of their child. The findings highlight the importance of the implementation of stress reduction programs for pregnant women and those in their postpartum period within communities in order to enable these individuals to relieve stress effectively.
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spelling pubmed-58769402018-04-09 The Association between Maternal Stress and Childhood Eczema: A Systematic Review Chan, Carmen W. H. Law, Bernard M. H. Liu, Yun-Hong Ambrocio, Alexandra R. B. Au, Natasha Jiang, Melody Chow, Ka Ming Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Eczema is a chronic atopic disease that is highly prevalent among children worldwide. Identification of factors that may contribute to childhood eczema is needed in order to develop strategies in its prevention. Over the past decade, accumulating evidence has suggested a potential correlation between the experience of stress by mothers and the risk of eczema development in their child. The present review attempts to provide an overview of the studies that contribute data on this correlation. The literature search was conducted using five databases, resulting in the inclusion of eleven studies in the review. The findings of these studies were summarized narratively. Further, an appraisal of the reporting quality of the included studies was conducted using a twelve-item checklist adapted from the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) checklist. Overall, the included studies showed that a positive correlation exists between the experience of stress among mothers and eczema risk of their child. The findings highlight the importance of the implementation of stress reduction programs for pregnant women and those in their postpartum period within communities in order to enable these individuals to relieve stress effectively. MDPI 2018-02-25 2018-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5876940/ /pubmed/29495329 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15030395 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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The Association between Maternal Stress and Childhood Eczema: A Systematic Review
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