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Documentation Status and Parental Concerns About Development in Young US Children of Mexican Origin
Academic pediatrics, v 9(4), pp 278-282
01 Jul 2009
PMID: 19394914
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Abstract
Objective.-To examine parent concerns about development, learning, and behavior for young children of Mexican origin, and to identify whether these reports differ by families' citizenship/documentation status.
Methods.-Data come from the 2005 California Health Interview Survey, a population-based random-digit dial telephone survey of California's noninstitutionalized population. California Health Inerview Survey (CHIS) investigators completed interviews of 43 020 households with a total of 5856 children under age 6 years, of whom 1786 were reported being of Mexican origin. Developmental risk was measured by parent concerns elicited by the Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status. We used bivariate and multivariate analyses to examine associations between developmental risk and family citizenship/documentation status (parents are undocumented, at least one documented noncitizen parent, or both parents are US citizens) among children of Mexican origin and US-born non-Latino white children, after adjusting for age, income, parental education, and predominant household language.
Results.-In multivariate analyses, children of Mexican origin did not differ significantly from US-born white children in developmental risk (odds ratio 1.12, 95% confidence interval 0.88-1.42). In subgroup analyses, children of Mexican origin with undocumented parents had higher odds of developmental risk (odds ratio 1.53, 95% confidence interval 1.00-2.33) than non-Latino white children whose parents were citizens, after adjusting for confounders.
Conclusions.-Mexican children with undocumented parents have greater parent-reported developmental risk than Mexican and white, children whose parents are US citizens or otherwise legally documented. More research is needed to understand the roles of immigration stress and home environments on the developmental risks of children in households with undocumented parents.
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- Title
- Documentation Status and Parental Concerns About Development in Young US Children of Mexican Origin
- Creators
- Alexander N. Ortega - Departments of Health Services, School of Public Health, Institute for Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles, 2134 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, California 90095-1484, USA. aortega@ucla.eduSarah M. Horwitz - Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Dept Pediat, Stanford, CA 94305 USAHai Fang - Univ Miami, Dept Sociol, Hlth Econ Res Grp, Coral Gables, FL 33124 USAAlice A. Kuo - Univ Calif Los Angeles, David Geffen Sch Med, Dept Pediat, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USASteven P. Wallace - Univ Calif Los Angeles, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Community Hlth Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USAMoira Inkelas
- Publication Details
- Academic pediatrics, v 9(4), pp 278-282
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 5
- Grant note
- R01 MH069849 / National Institute of Mental Health; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R01MH069849 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000275913200013
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-67650007904
- Other Identifier
- 991019297057304721
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