Food Insecurity and Children's Mental Health: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Melchior, Maria ^a   Chastang, Jean François ^a   Falissard, Bruno ^b   Galéra, Cédric ^c   Tremblay, Richard E ^b,d,e   Côté, Sylvana M ^b,d   Boivin, Michel ^f  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^b Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER CHARLES PERRENS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BIRTH; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD MENTAL HEALTH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOOD INSECURITY; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; IMMIGRANT; INCOME; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TOBACCO; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANXIETY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUEBEC; RISK FACTORS;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84871587959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052615     Document Type: Article

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