On November 5-8, Dr. Rioux and the lab’s students Carson Freeman (undergraduate research assistant), Christina Personette (past undergraduate research assistant, now Clinical PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh), and Madison Bissa (past Honors thesis student, now Clinical PhD student at the University of Tulsa) presented their research at the Marcé of North America Conference in Toronto, Canada! Marcé of North America is a regional group that is part of the International Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health.
Carson presented his research finding that prenatal anxiety predicted a more difficult child temperament only when there were also high levels of prenatal sensory processing sensitivity (also known as highly sensitive personality).
Christina presented her research finding that social support buffered te impact of household, but not community-level, adverse childhood experiences on perinatal mental health.
Madi presented her research finding that asking questions about gender identity in a pregnancy cohort was not associated with participant dropout.
