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Brazilian mothers' beliefs about congenital abnormalities hold sway.
2004 OCT 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in Brazil say that even if the beliefs of mothers about causes of congenital abnormalities aren't scientifically valid, what they believe has important health implications.
G.D. Garcias and colleagues interviewed mothers in hospital in the city of Pelotas (population 400,000), Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, to compare conventional wisdom on causes of congenital abnormalities with six well-known causes: drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco, drug use, marriage between relatives, rubella infection, and maternal age. They also wanted to determine what erroneous beliefs actually are held by the general population, as represented by the hospitalized mothers.
"On each day of the study, the first three mothers to give birth were interviewed, resulting in 3,219 interviewed mothers out of 6,048 births," according to the researchers' report.
They concluded, "... [E]ven though conventional wisdom is non-scientific it cannot be ignored because it is the source of a lot of suffering for the mother and can interfere with how she cares for her health. Although erroneous ideas about the causes of ...
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