Exploring how pregnant people in recovery from opioid use disorder describe their child during pregnancy

IF 2.6 3区医学 Q3 NEUROSCIENCES

Neurotoxicology and teratology Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI:10.1016/j.ntt.2025.107449

Katherine L. Guyon-Harris , Regan Carell , Montia D. Brock , Kathryn L. Humphreys , Alissa C. Huth-Bocks

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Abstract

Objective

Understanding parenting strengths and challenges among pregnant people in recovery from opioid use disorder supports effective intervention delivery. How parents think and feel about their child prenatally has implications for postnatal parenting. In our past work, greater use of positive compared to negative or neutral prenatal descriptors of the child during pregnancy was associated with higher sensitivity, warmth, and engagement during caregiver–infant interactions 12-months postpartum. We analyzed descriptions of the child among pregnant people in recovery compared to a non-substance using sample to further our understanding of potential parenting strengths and risks for people in recovery.

Method

Participants included pregnant people (N = 18; M age = 30.06, SD = 3.33) recruited from an outpatient substance use treatment program providing buprenorphine (recovery sample) and a comparison sample of pregnant people (N = 120; M age = 26.16, SD = 5.71) reporting high rates of economic disadvantage and intimate partner violence, but not substance use. Through a semi-structured interview, participants described the personality of the child they were pregnant with in up to five words/phrases. Each description was coded as positive, neutral, or negative.

Results

Participants in the recovery sample used a greater number of positive words on average (M = 3.5, SD = 1.4) relative to the comparison sample (M = 2.7, SD = 1.5; Cohen's d = 0.56, 95 % confidence interval: LL = 0.06, UL = 1.06). Use of negative descriptors was similar across samples.

Conclusions

Assessing how pregnant people in recovery think and feel about their developing fetus is feasible and could create opportunities for engagement in preventive parenting interventions to support healthy conceptualizations of the child.

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Neurotoxicology and teratology 医学-毒理学

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5.60

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10.30%

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58 days

期刊介绍： Neurotoxicology and Teratology provides a forum for publishing new information regarding the effects of chemical and physical agents on the developing, adult or aging nervous system. In this context, the fields of neurotoxicology and teratology include studies of agent-induced alterations of nervous system function, with a focus on behavioral outcomes and their underlying physiological and neurochemical mechanisms. The Journal publishes original, peer-reviewed Research Reports of experimental, clinical, and epidemiological studies that address the neurotoxicity and/or functional teratology of pesticides, solvents, heavy metals, nanomaterials, organometals, industrial compounds, mixtures, drugs of abuse, pharmaceuticals, animal and plant toxins, atmospheric reaction products, and physical agents such as radiation and noise. These reports include traditional mammalian neurotoxicology experiments, human studies, studies using non-mammalian animal models, and mechanistic studies in vivo or in vitro. Special Issues, Reviews, Commentaries, Meeting Reports, and Symposium Papers provide timely updates on areas that have reached a critical point of synthesis, on aspects of a scientific field undergoing rapid change, or on areas that present special methodological or interpretive problems. Theoretical Articles address concepts and potential mechanisms underlying actions of agents of interest in the nervous system. The Journal also publishes Brief Communications that concisely describe a new method, technique, apparatus, or experimental result.