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Maternal health prior to pregnancy and preterm birth among urban, low income black women in Baltimore: the Baltimore Preterm Birth StudySuezanne T Orr
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27834, USA
Ethn Dis 22:85-9. 2012..Recent recommendations to reduce preterm birth have focused on preconception health care. We explore the associations between indicators of maternal prepregnancy health with preterm birth among a sample of black women...
Maternal prenatal depressive symptoms, nicotine addiction, and smoking-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviorsSuezanne Tangerose Orr
Department of Health Education and Promotion ret, College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, 410 Kempton Drive, Greenville, NC 27834, USA
Matern Child Health J 16:973-8. 2012..CES-D score was associated with nicotine addiction, not thinking of quitting smoking, and not expecting support from family and friends if they decided to quit. Prenatal depressive symptoms may be a barrier to smoking cessation...- Unintended pregnancy and prenatal behaviors among urban, black women in Baltimore, Maryland: the Baltimore preterm birth studySuezanne T Orr
Department of Health Education and Promotion, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Ann Epidemiol 18:545-51. 2008..We explored associations between intendedness of pregnancy with maternal prenatal behaviors, including smoking, use of alcohol, use of illicit drugs, and late initiation of prenatal care... - Exercise and pregnancy outcome among urban, low-income, black womenSuezanne T Orr
Department of Health Education and Promotion, East Carolina University, Christenbury 200, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Ethn Dis 16:933-7. 2006..Our analysis failed to identify any association between exercise and pregnancy outcomes among low-income, urban, Black women... - Maternal prenatal pregnancy-related anxiety and spontaneous preterm birth in Baltimore, MarylandSuezanne T Orr
Department of Health Education and Promotion, College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Psychosom Med 69:566-70. 2007..Psychosocial factors have been the subject of inquiries about the etiology of preterm birth; a factor of recent interest is maternal prenatal pregnancy-related anxiety (worries and concerns related to the pregnancy)... - Depressive symptoms and indicators of maternal health status during pregnancySuezanne T Orr
Department of Health Education and Promotion, College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 16:535-42. 2007..In the current study, we investigated the relationship between depressive symptoms and health and functional status among pregnant women... - Exercise participation before and during pregnancy among low-income, urban, Black women: the Baltimore Preterm Birth StudySuezanne T Orr
Department of Health Education and Promotion, East Carolina University, Christenbury 200, Tenth Street, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Ethn Dis 16:909-13. 2006..Encouraging Black women to continue to exercise as they age may have promising implications for the prevention of chronic diseases... - Life satisfaction and preterm birth among urban black women: findings from the Baltimore preterm birth studySuezanne T Orr
Department of Health Education and Promotion, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA
Ann Epidemiol 22:759-63. 2012..In the research reported in this article, the relationship between life satisfaction and PTB among black women was studied... - Maternal prenatal depressive symptoms and spontaneous preterm births among African-American women in Baltimore, MarylandSuezanne T Orr
Department of Health Education and Promotion, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Am J Epidemiol 156:797-802. 2002..Effective treatment of depression in pregnant women could ultimately result in a reduction of spontaneous preterm births... - Racial disparities in elevated prenatal depressive symptoms among black and white women in eastern north CarolinaSuezanne T Orr
Department of Health Education and Promotion, College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Ann Epidemiol 16:463-8. 2006..Our study focused on Center for Epidemiologic Studies' Depression Scale (CES-D) scores of pregnant black and white women... - Prenatal smoking cessation among Black and White women in Eastern North CarolinaSuezanne T Orr
Department of Health Education and Promotion, College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Christenbury 200, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Am J Health Promot 21:192-5. 2007..We analyzed smoking cessation and factors associated with cessation (attitudes, environment, and nicotine addiction) in a sample of pregnant Black and White women... - Factors associated with prenatal smoking among black women in eastern North CarolinaSuezanne T Orr
Department of Health Education and Promotion, East Carolina University, Christenbury 205, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Matern Child Health J 9:245-52. 2005..The rate of nondisclosure of smoking among self-reported quitters was also high. Maternal behavioral (allowing smoking in the home) and psychosocial factors (depressive symptoms) were associated with prenatal smoking... - Social support and pregnancy outcome: a review of the literatureSuezanne T Orr
Department of Health Education and Promotion, College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, USA
Clin Obstet Gynecol 47:842-55; discussion 881-2. 2004