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. 2024 Nov 4;7(11):e2442596.
doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.42596.

Homelessness and Maternal and Infant Health

Mark E McGovern  1 , Dan Treglia  2 , Erica L Eliason  3 , Amanda Spishak-Thomas  2 , Joel C Cantor  2
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Homelessness and Maternal and Infant Health

Mark E McGovern et al. JAMA Netw Open. .
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This cross-sectional analysis of pregnancy risk data from US individuals with live births analyzes the association of homelessness with utilization of primary care, rates of stress-induced health behaviors, and allostatic load and anxiety.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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Figure.
Figure.. Experience of Homelessness and Maternal and Infant Health in PRAMS Data, 2016-2021
PRAMS indicates Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System; RR, risk ratio. All data are weighted with the PRAMS survey weights and CIs account for survey design. Analysis is based on PRAMS phase 8. Models for unadjusted relative RRs include only the exposure (an indicator for experience of homelessness) and the outcome. Models for adjusted relative RRs that account for observed potential confounders additionally include the following covariates: infant is a singleton, infant sex, the postpartum person is married, postpartum person’s place of residence (urban or rural), postpartum person’s ethnicity, postpartum person’s race, postpartum person’s partner race, and postpartum person’s age. The month of pregnancy during which the postpartum person had their first prenatal check-up is a count variable ranging from 1 (first month of pregnancy) to 9 (last month of pregnancy), while the other variables are dichotomous indictors. Small for gestational age is defined as a birthweight of less than 10th percentile for gestational age.
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