Emily S. Barrett|Sheela Sathyanarayana|Sarah Janssen|J. Bruce Redmon|Ruby H.N. Nguyen|Roni Kobrosly|Shanna H. Swan
Environmental health attitudes and behaviors: findings from a large pregnancy cohort study
University of Rochester|University of Washington|Seattle Children's Hospital|University of California, San Francisco|University of Minnesota Medical Center|University of Minnesota|Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai|Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
objective environmental chemicals widely found food personal care products may adverse effects fetal development aim examine womens attitudes chemicals ask whether try limit exposure pregnancy study design multicenter cohort women first trimester pregnancy completed questionnaires including items attitudes behaviors related environmental chemicals multivariable logistic regression models used examine 1 whether sociodemographic variables predict environmental health attitudes behaviors 2 whether womens attitudes environmental chemicals affect lifestyle behaviors particularly diet personal care product use results 894 subjects approximately 60 strongly agreed environmental chemicals dangerous 25 strongly felt impossible avoid adjusting covariates educated women likely believe environmental chemicals dangerous 174 95 ci 113 266 belief turn associated number healthy behaviors including choosing organic foods foods safe plastics chemicalfree personal care products limiting fast food intake younger women likely believe environmental chemicals impossible avoid 104 95 ci 100 108 conclusions womens attitudes environmental chemicals may impact choices pregnancy overcoming lack concern environmental chemicals particularly among certain sociodemographic groups important success clinical public health prevention measures