Maternal attentiveness of cocaine abusers during child-based assessments.
Cocaine-abusing mothers were compared with non-cocaine-using mothers on videotaped ratings of attentiveness to their children during developmental assessments done at age 3 months (n = 64), 6 months (n = 80), 12 months (n = 90), and 18 months (n = 53). At the 3-month assessment only, cocaine-abusing women spent a lower percentage of time being attentive and made more shifts in attentiveness than did control-group mothers. These differences were not found at 6-, 12-, or 18-month assessments. Maternal attentiveness appears to be more strongly related to current depression symptoms than addiction severity in the cocaine-abusing group.
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Dept. of Psychiatry and Child Study Center of the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA.
Maves
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DeTeso
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Schottenfeld
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D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000187:drug effects*; D003042:Cocaine; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008425:Maternal Behavior / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000523:psychology; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009293:Opioid-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*
D003042:Cocaine