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Recruitment and Retention of Pregnant Women for a Behavioral Intervention: Lessons from the Maternal Adiposity, Metabolism, and Stress (MAMAS) Study

• Kimberly Coleman-Phox, Barbara A. Laraia, Nancy E. Adler, Cassandra Vieten, Melanie B. Thomas, Elissa S Epel
• Preventing chronic disease
• 2013

INTRODUCTION Recruiting participants for research studies can be challenging. Many studies fall short of their target or must prolong recruitment to reach it. We examined recruitment and retention… (More)

Potential for a stress reduction intervention to promote healthy gestational weight gain: focus groups with low-income pregnant women.

• Melanie B. Thomas, Cassandra Vieten, +4 authors Barbara A. Laraia
• Women's health issues : official publication of…
• 2014

BACKGROUND Prepregnancy body mass index and excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) are associated with adverse maternal and infant outcomes. Because stress contributes to obesity and eating… (More)

A randomized comparison of home visits and hospital-based group follow-up visits after early postpartum discharge.

• Gabriel J. Escobar, Paula Braveman, +5 authors Tracy A. Lieu
• Pediatrics
• 2001

OBJECTIVE Short postpartum stays are common. Current guidelines provide scant guidance on how routine follow-up of newly discharged mother-infant pairs should be performed. We aimed to compare 2… (More)

Unstudied infants: outcomes of moderately premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.

• Gabriel J. Escobar, Martin McCormick, +5 authors Daniel Richardson
• Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and…
• 2006

BACKGROUND Newborns of 30-34 weeks gestation comprise 3.9% of all live births in the United States and 32% of all premature infants. They have been studied much less than very low birthweight… (More)

Poor Sleep Quality, Psychological Distress, and the Buffering Effect of Mindfulness Training During Pregnancy.

• Jennifer N Felder, Barbara A. Laraia, +6 authors Aric Andrew Prather
• Behavioral sleep medicine
• 2017

OBJECTIVE/BACKGROUND Poor sleep quality is common in pregnancy and associated with increased psychological distress, which has adverse consequences for families. Emerging theory suggests that… (More)

Maternal depressive symptoms and infant healthcare utilization: The moderating role of prenatal mindfulness.

• Danielle S. Roubinov, Jennifer N Felder, +6 authors Nicole R. Bush
• General hospital psychiatry
• 2018

Effect of prenatal mindfulness training on depressive symptom severity through 18-months postpartum: A latent profile analysis.

• Jennifer N Felder, Danielle S. Roubinov, +5 authors Elissa S Epel
• Journal of clinical psychology
• 2018

OBJECTIVE We examined whether prenatal mindfulness training was associated with lower depressive symptoms through 18-months postpartum compared to treatment as usual (TAU). METHOD A controlled,… (More)

Novel Interventions to Reduce Stress and Overeating in Overweight Pregnant Women: A Feasibility Study

• Barbara A. Laraia, N. E. Adler, +11 authors Ellisa Epel
• Maternal and Child Health Journal
• 2018

Background High stress and depression during pregnancy are risk factors for worsened health trajectories for both mother and offspring. This is also true for pre-pregnancy obesity and excessive… (More)

Use of a fan during sleep and the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.

• Kimberly Coleman-Phox, Roxana Odouli, D Yanbing Li
• Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine
• 2008

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between room ventilation during sleep and risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). DESIGN Population-based case-control study. SETTING Eleven California… (More)

Sugary beverage and food consumption, and leukocyte telomere length maintenance in pregnant women

• Cindy W. Leung, Barbara A. Laraia, +5 authors Elissa S Epel
• European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
• 2016

Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) has been inversely associated with sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption in cross-sectional studies, but no studies have examined whether dietary intake… (More)

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