Researchers from the University of Nottingham used information routinely collected by GP patient records to study children born between January 1988 and November 2004 and their mothers. They examined data from a total of more than 180,000 mother-child pairs, which included 986 cases of scald injuries.
As part of their analysis, they looked at the sex of the child, their age at the time of the injury and the number of siblings. While for mothers, they assessed their age at childbirth, any history of depression during pregnancy or the first six months after their birth of their child, and whether they drank alcohol to a harmful or hazardous extent.
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