New Scientist：研究显示父母情绪影响孩子健康
据最新一期英国《新科学家》杂志报道，美国一项研究显示，父母在生活中如果有过多的焦虑，会使他们的孩子更容易出现健康问题。
美国罗切斯特大学研究人员在３年时间内跟踪调查了１６９名５岁至１０岁的儿童，要求父母记录孩子的患病情况和体温状态，并每半年为父母进行一次心理健康评估。研究人员发现，如果父母具有较高的“情绪压力”，存在焦虑或抑郁问题，其子女的患病次数会明显高于其他孩子。
研究人员认为，这些儿童的情绪不佳影响到他们的免疫系统，使他们更易受到疾病侵害。研究人员认为有必要对此问题进行长期研究。
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New Scientist magazine, 21 March 2008, page 18
Stressed parents equals sick kids
STRESSED parents aren't just damaging their own health - they may also be making their children more vulnerable to illness.
Stress is well known to affect a person's own physical health, but the effect on their children's health was unclear. To investigate, Mary Caserta and her colleagues at the University of Rochester in New York asked the parents of 169 children aged between 5 and 10 to monitor their child's health over three years, recording symptoms of illnesses and taking their temperatures.
Every six months, the parents took a test designed to assess their own psychiatric health, noting markers of stress such as anxiety or depression.
Caserta's team found that the total number of illnesses, both with and without fever, was significantly higher in the children of parents who reported high levels of emotional stress. The team also measured the levels of immune cells in the children, and found those with highly stressed parents were much more likely to have heightened immune activity - a sign that they were working hard to fend off infection (Brain, Behavior and Immunity, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2008.01.007)
David Jessop at the University of Bristol in the UK calls the results fascinating, and thinks that future studies should aim discover which stress factors have the biggest impact on children's immunity.
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