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Maternal drinking and smoking. Can it explain the exceptional academic performance of LBOTE children? A preliminary analysis
OBJECTIVE: Although children from language backgrounds other than English (LBOTE) may be disadvantaged in English-reliant exams, they outperform children from an English language background (ELB) on many Australian National Assessment Program–Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) assessments. Maternal alco...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8052672/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33863380 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05544-5 |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Although children from language backgrounds other than English (LBOTE) may be disadvantaged in English-reliant exams, they outperform children from an English language background (ELB) on many Australian National Assessment Program–Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) assessments. Maternal alcohol and tobacco use during pregnancy and/or breastfeeding have been associated with poorer cognitive and academic performance. Using data from the Growing Up in Australia Study, this paper aimed to identify demographic, lifestyle, and prenatal and perinatal risk differences related to maternal tobacco and alcohol use between LBOTE and ELB groups, as a first step in trying to understand the academic performance differences. RESULTS: Only data from breastfed babies was included in the current analyses. Although LBOTE children were disadvantaged in several demographic areas, their NAPLAN performance was the same or superior to ELB children across all Grade 3 and 5 NAPLAN assessments. The LBOTE group were, however, breastfed for longer, and their mothers smoked fewer cigarettes and drank less alcohol on fewer occasions throughout their pregnancy. The LBOTE mothers also had lower or less risky patterns of alcohol consumption while breastfeeding. The longer breastfeeding duration of LBOTE children combined with lower maternal use of alcohol and cigarettes during pregnancy and/or breastfeeding may partially contribute to their exceptional NAPLAN performance. |
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spelling | pubmed-80526722021-04-19 Maternal drinking and smoking. Can it explain the exceptional academic performance of LBOTE children? A preliminary analysis Gibson, Louisa Porter, Melanie BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Although children from language backgrounds other than English (LBOTE) may be disadvantaged in English-reliant exams, they outperform children from an English language background (ELB) on many Australian National Assessment Program–Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) assessments. Maternal alcohol and tobacco use during pregnancy and/or breastfeeding have been associated with poorer cognitive and academic performance. Using data from the Growing Up in Australia Study, this paper aimed to identify demographic, lifestyle, and prenatal and perinatal risk differences related to maternal tobacco and alcohol use between LBOTE and ELB groups, as a first step in trying to understand the academic performance differences. RESULTS: Only data from breastfed babies was included in the current analyses. Although LBOTE children were disadvantaged in several demographic areas, their NAPLAN performance was the same or superior to ELB children across all Grade 3 and 5 NAPLAN assessments. The LBOTE group were, however, breastfed for longer, and their mothers smoked fewer cigarettes and drank less alcohol on fewer occasions throughout their pregnancy. The LBOTE mothers also had lower or less risky patterns of alcohol consumption while breastfeeding. The longer breastfeeding duration of LBOTE children combined with lower maternal use of alcohol and cigarettes during pregnancy and/or breastfeeding may partially contribute to their exceptional NAPLAN performance. BioMed Central 2021-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8052672/ /pubmed/33863380 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05544-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Note Gibson, Louisa Porter, Melanie Maternal drinking and smoking. Can it explain the exceptional academic performance of LBOTE children? A preliminary analysis |
title | Maternal drinking and smoking. Can it explain the exceptional academic performance of LBOTE children? A preliminary analysis |
title_full | Maternal drinking and smoking. Can it explain the exceptional academic performance of LBOTE children? A preliminary analysis |
title_fullStr | Maternal drinking and smoking. Can it explain the exceptional academic performance of LBOTE children? A preliminary analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Maternal drinking and smoking. Can it explain the exceptional academic performance of LBOTE children? A preliminary analysis |
title_short | Maternal drinking and smoking. Can it explain the exceptional academic performance of LBOTE children? A preliminary analysis |
title_sort | maternal drinking and smoking. can it explain the exceptional academic performance of lbote children? a preliminary analysis |
topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8052672/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33863380 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05544-5 |
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