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Breastfeeding and the child cognitive outcomes: a propensity score matching approach.

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Jiang, M; Foster, EM; Gibson-Davis, CM
Published in: Maternal and child health journal
November 2011

To estimate the effect of breastfeeding initiation and duration on child development outcomes. 3,271 children and their mothers participating in the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics provide data for these analyses. Main outcomes include Woodcock Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery-Revised (WJ-R) test score (letter word, passage comprehension, applied problem, and broad reading), and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) test score at the 2002 survey. Controlled variables include family, maternal, and child characteristics, many of which can be traced back to the year the child was born. The analytic technique is propensity score matching with multiple imputations. After using propensity scores to adjust for confounding factors, breastfeeding initiation showed statistically significant effects but the practical scale remains small. Breastfeeding duration showed a non-linear effect on those outcomes and most of the effects are not significant. The effects of breastfeeding on child's cognitive outcomes are modest in practical terms. The non-linear effects suggest that selection into breastfeeding may account for the increased score of children who are breastfed.

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Published In

Maternal and child health journal

DOI

EISSN

1573-6628

ISSN

1092-7875

Publication Date

November 2011

Volume

15

Issue

8

Start / End Page

1296 / 1307

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Public Health
  • Propensity Score
  • Male
  • Interviews as Topic
  • Intelligence Tests
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Child Development
  • Child
 

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Jiang, M., Foster, E. M., & Gibson-Davis, C. M. (2011). Breastfeeding and the child cognitive outcomes: a propensity score matching approach. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 15(8), 1296–1307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-010-0677-5
Jiang, Miao, E Michael Foster, and Christina M. Gibson-Davis. “Breastfeeding and the child cognitive outcomes: a propensity score matching approach.Maternal and Child Health Journal 15, no. 8 (November 2011): 1296–1307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-010-0677-5.
Jiang M, Foster EM, Gibson-Davis CM. Breastfeeding and the child cognitive outcomes: a propensity score matching approach. Maternal and child health journal. 2011 Nov;15(8):1296–307.
Jiang, Miao, et al. “Breastfeeding and the child cognitive outcomes: a propensity score matching approach.Maternal and Child Health Journal, vol. 15, no. 8, Nov. 2011, pp. 1296–307. Epmc, doi:10.1007/s10995-010-0677-5.
Jiang M, Foster EM, Gibson-Davis CM. Breastfeeding and the child cognitive outcomes: a propensity score matching approach. Maternal and child health journal. 2011 Nov;15(8):1296–1307.
Journal cover image

Published In

Maternal and child health journal

DOI

EISSN

1573-6628

ISSN

1092-7875

Publication Date

November 2011

Volume

15

Issue

8

Start / End Page

1296 / 1307

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Public Health
  • Propensity Score
  • Male
  • Interviews as Topic
  • Intelligence Tests
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Child Development
  • Child