Secular trends of socio-demographic and lifestyle characteristics among delivering women in Arctic Russia, 1973-2017
Treskina N.A. Postoev V.A. Usynina A.A. Grjibovski A.M. Odland J.Ø.
2023Taylor and Francis Ltd.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health
2023#82Issue 1
The aim of this study was to describe temporal trends in socio-demographic and lifestyle characteristics among delivering women in two Northern provinces of Russia from 1973 to 2017. Totally 161,730 births were registered in three birth registries. Changes in the distribution of maternal age, education, marital status, smoking during pregnancy were studied using Pearson’s chi-squared tests and one-way ANOVA. The logistic regression models were used to assess factors, contributing to the variations in the prevalence of maternal smoking. The mean age of primiparous mothers increased from 22.1 years in 1973–1980 to 25.4 years in 2012–2017 (p < 0.001). The proportion of primiparous mothers with higher education increased from 26.2% in 2006 to 38.3% in 2017 (p < 0.001). The proportion of cohabiting primiparous women increased from 5.0% to 15.2% over the study period (p < 0.001). The proportion of mothers smoking during pregnancy decreased from 18.9% in 2006–2011 to 14.8% in 2012–2017 (p < 0.001). Downward in the prevalence of smoking was revealed in 2012–2017 compared to 2006–2011 (OR = 137.76; 95%CI:71.62–264.96, OR = 183.74; 95%CI:95.52–353.41, respectively). Over the past decades, women postpone childbearing until receiving higher education, continue living in cohabitation during pregnancy and smoke less.
alcohol , arctic , Birth registry , Russia , smoking , socio-demographic factors
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Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Department of Public Health, Health Care and Social Work, Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation
Department of Neonatology and Perinatology, Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation
Central Scientific Research Laboratory, Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation
Department of Health Policy and Management, Al Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Department of Epidemiology and Modern Vaccination Technologies, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Department of Biology, Ecology and Biotechnology, Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation
Department of General Hygiene, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Institute of Ecology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation
Department of Public Health and Nursing
Department of Public Health
Department of Neonatology and Perinatology
Central Scientific Research Laboratory
Department of Health Policy and Management
Department of Epidemiology and Modern Vaccination Technologies
Department of Biology
Department of General Hygiene
Institute of Ecology
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