Urquia Marcelo L, St-Germain Andrée-Anne Fafard, Godoy Maria, Brownell Marni, Janus Magdalena
Department of Community Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, Room 408-727 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3P5, Canada.
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
J Immigr Minor Health. 2025 Feb;27(1):94-103. doi: 10.1007/s10903-024-01638-x. Epub 2024 Oct 22.
Little is known about differences in child developmental vulnerability before school entry according to maternal birthplace and sex. Official immigration records were linked with the Early Development Instrument assessments among children in kindergarten in the province of Manitoba, Canada (2005-2017). Logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios of vulnerability in five developmental domains associated with maternal birthplace and child sex. Children of immigrant mothers from most birthplaces had higher adjusted odds of developmental vulnerability than non-immigrants in domains related to language and communication skills, except those of the rest of North America & Oceania. Children of Sub-Saharan African mothers were more vulnerable in four domains. Boys were consistently more vulnerable than girls across domains and maternal birthplaces. Children of immigrant mothers exhibited higher developmental vulnerability than non-immigrants in domains related to language and communication skills, potentially reflecting exposure to English and French as second languages.
关于入学前儿童发育易损性根据母亲出生地和性别的差异，我们所知甚少。官方移民记录与加拿大曼尼托巴省幼儿园儿童的早期发育工具评估相关联（2005 - 2017年）。使用逻辑回归来估计与母亲出生地和儿童性别相关的五个发育领域中易损性的比值比。在与语言和沟通技能相关的领域中，除了来自北美其他地区和大洋洲的移民母亲的孩子外，大多数出生地的移民母亲的孩子经调整后的发育易损性几率高于非移民。撒哈拉以南非洲母亲的孩子在四个领域更易受影响。在各个领域和母亲出生地中，男孩始终比女孩更易受影响。移民母亲的孩子在与语言和沟通技能相关的领域中表现出比非移民更高的发育易损性，这可能反映了他们接触英语和法语作为第二语言的情况。
