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Research Article - Neuropsychiatry (2016) Volume 6, Issue 4

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An ongoing controversial issue is the developmental delay of infants associated with methadone treatment during pregnancy. Previous studies focused on Caucasian population, and most did not use a comprehensive assessment tool. This study used an appropriate assessment tool to evaluate these infants in a Taiwanese population. The study proceeded from July to March in a large teaching psychiatric hospital in Taiwan. Three domains of the Bayley Scale of Infant Development, 3rd edition Bayley-III was used to evaluate the development of infants with histories of prenatal exposure to methadone. The evaluations were performed together by the same child psychiatrist and psychologist at the same month but the social-emotional rating relied on reports of the caregivers. Eight children and their mothers participated. Five of eight children showed significant developmental delay; three had developmental delay in language composition, three had developmental delay in cognitive composition, but no developmental delay was seen for the social-emotional portion. Parental neglect was noticed in most cases. Conclusions A substantial number of infants showed developmental delay. The use of methadone and a chaotic life-style associated with illicit drugs use during pregnancy both contributed to this developmental delay. Large studies are needed to clarify the risk of methadone for developmental delay in infants. Heroin use and related problems have been emerging as an important public health issue. Opioid substitution therapy is the medically supervised administration of a psychoactive substance that is similar to the one producing dependence. According to new WHO guidelines confirm that, even after 40 years, substitution therapies such as methadone are still the most promising method of reducing drug dependence \[ 1 \]. Methadone is a long-acting opioid which is the standard treatment for the management of opioid-dependent pregnant women and its pregnancy category is C \[ 2 , 3 \]. Methadone has been used for the treatment of opioid addiction during pregnancy since the s \[ 4 , 5 \]. Perinatal methadone substitution therapy provides several potential maternal, obstetrical, and neonatal benefits \[ 6 \]. Additional benefits include a potential reduction in drug-seeking behaviors, including trading sex for drugs and in engaging in commercial sex to obtain money to buy drugs \[ 7 \]. Pregnant women enrolled in a substance use disorders treatment program are more likely to receive prenatal care, have infants of higher birth weight and be discharged home with their neonate \[ 8 - 11 \]. This treatment has definite advantages for the mother and is currently recommended \[ 12 \], but in-utero drug exposure is associated with increased risks of perinatal morbidity and mortality \[ 13 \]. According to previous studies, infants of substance-using mothers have much poorer child protection outcomes than infants of non-substance-using mothers \[ 14 , 15 \]. Previous studies also indicate that infants prenatally exposed to opiates are at risk for mild psychomotor developmental impairment \[ 16 \]. However, there are only a few studies exploring the outcomes of the infants of methadone maintenance treatment MMT pregnant mother. The assessment tools of previous related studies are inadequate or not comprehensive enough to assess the outcomes of these infants \[ 13 \]. Previous studies also focused on the population of North America or West Europe \[ 16 - 18 \]. Therefore, we designed a study with an appropriate assessment tool to evaluate the development of these infants prospectively in Taiwanese population. We hope this pilot study may help further research on this topic. This study was conducted in a large teaching psychiatric hospital in Taiwan from July to March The hospital provides methadone treatment to more than 1, patients per day and it is also the biggest child psychiatric department in Taiwan. Prior to the study, all of the mothers who received MMT were legally competent and provided informed written consent after full study explanation. Inclusion criteria included patients who were pregnant woman; met the DSM-IV opioid dependence criteria; were under MMT program during their gestation; and who agreed to join the study and signed an inform consent. There were no exclusion criteria for this study. The eligible patients were invited to participate in our study, and were informed about the necessity and safety of methadone treatment. In order to prevent the possibility of neonatal abstinence syndrome, we also suggested that these women discuss the information about methadone with their obstetricians. Several studies have suggested that the dosage of methadone should be increased for pregnant women to ensure maintenance concentrations similar to those in non-pregnant patients \[ 19 - 21 \]. Otherwise, if the mothers want to tapper methadone dosage, the dose should be monitored closely during their tapering \[ 22 \]. We add on the dosage of methadone 5mg per day if patient complained withdrawal symptoms during pregnancy. A principal objective of the methadone maintenance program is to help the patient feel physically comfortable without producing euphoria. We also asked some questions about the breast feeding, motivation to change their life style, and how they felt about the methadone treatment during pregnancy. The Bayley-III are recognized internationally as one of the most comprehensive tools to assess children from as young as one month old. With Bayley-III, it is possible to obtain detailed information even from non-verbal children as to their functioning. Children are assessed in the five key developmental domains of cognition, language, social-emotional, motor and adaptive behavior. We selected three domains — language scale, cognitive scale, and social-emotional scaleto evaluate these children in this study. These three domains have good discriminative validity when examined in large populations \[ 23 \], and can identify children ages 1 month to 3. Bayley-III follows a time-tested tradition of using standardized assessment procedures to provide toddlers and infants with tasks and situations that capture their interest and provide an observable set of behavioral responses \[ 24 \]. We asked these patients to bring their children back to our outpatient clinic for evaluation, and all tests except social-emotional scale were performed by the same child psychiatrist and psychologist together. The rating of socialemotional scale relied on the reports of their caregivers. All opioid dependence patients who got pregnancy from July to March in the study hospital were invited to join the study. Thirty-nine women were eligible for and 12 agreed to participate in this study. Nine of them completed the evaluation. Reviewing the record of these 4 early terminators, all of their babies are female cases. Their parents do not report the reason why they lose follow up during the study. The demographic data, methadone dose and results of Baley-III of the mothers and babies are shown in the Table 1. Mother A stopped taking methadone during second trimester. Although Mother H suffered from withdrawal symptoms, she refused to increase methadone dosage. After our psychoeducation, all mothers were breast-feeding their own baby in order to prevent neonatal withdrawal symptom. These mothers need to check urine drug screen when the first time starting a new session of their methadone treatment, and the urine drug screen results were recorded in the Table 1. The socio-economic level and educated level of each mother was also recorded in the Table 1. The median age of these drug-exposed children is 14 months range from 3 to The table also demonstrates the scores of each subscale about these eight children, and shows that five children have developmental delay cases A,B,C,D, and E. Three of these five children have cognitive developmental delay, and three have language developmental delay. All eight children have normal scores on the socialemotional scale. Because heroin abuse may impact the methods of child rearing used by parents, it is necessary to assess their methods in each case. Although all cases reported having a new child can motivate them to change their life style, we noticed that most parents do not have good skill to rear their offspring. For example, Case C expired one week after our evaluation, and the parents reported that the baby died due to falling down at home. The mother of case A let her son watch television all day long, and she believed such action was suitable. The mother of case F went to jail during the period of our study. Cases B, D, and G were reared by only one of their parents; the other one was always absent for some reasons, including being in prison. Faulty parenting was noticed in most of the cases. Up to our best knowledge, this is the second study using Bayley-III to evaluate the development of children whose mother is under MMT during pregnancy. There is one similar case series report using Bayley scales was done in \[ 18 \]. However, this study focus on several diagnosed physical or mental conditions, such as narcotic abstinence syndrome, elevated systolic blood pressure, and otitis media. That study use Bayley- III to evaluate the development of children only once at 18 months old. Our study focuses on neurodevelopment delay and the age distribution of our cases shows a wider range than previous one. This study is the first one done in Asia and there is no other similar study using Bayley scale was done since The result of this study is valuable with clinical importance. In these eight children, the delay in language composition is most obvious, being seen in three of them. Regarding cognitive composition, three of the children have developmental delay. Head circumstance is related maternal nutrition status \[ 25 \]. This may be related to that Social- Emotional Adaptive Behavior Questionnaire is completed by caregivers. All caregivers rated their children have positive representations of self, emotional knowledge and regulatory abilities. However, the validity of their reports and assessments may be not reliable. Furthermore, sometimes there may not be clear markers of impaired functioning in social-emotional domain despite the presence of substance abuse or other disease. These results are similar to that of previous studies \[ 16 , 27 \]. However, there are still some differences between them. First, our study is different from previous studies in gender composition because most of our cases are male children. Second, we evaluate the children within 4 to 42 months old. Previous study was done in 12 month old \[ 16 \] or in the first 18 months of life born to methadonemaintained mothers \[ 18 \]. Pregnant women have been treated with methadone for more than 25 years and neither methadone nor other opiates have been shown to directly cause birth defects. However, animal studies indicate detrimental effects on growth, behavior, neuroanatomy and biochemistry, and increased perinatal mortality \[ 28 \]. Human newborn baby may experience some side effects from methadone. The most common are smallerthan- normal head size, low birth weight, and withdrawal symptoms. We think there may be two other reasons for the developmental delay of these children. First, two mothers has urine morphine positive record B, E and all the other mothers have self-report of heroin use during methadone treatment. That means they used not only the therapeutic methadone but also illegal medications. Illicit drug use in pregnancy is strongly associated with the use of tobacco and heavy drinking \[ 29 \]. In addition, pregnant women who use any illicit drug typically use multiple substances \[ 30 \]. We noticed that most of them are raised by single parent or the child is grandparent-raised child. It is unfortunate that one of the children in the study died due to the neglect of parents at home. Drug effects also appear to be exacerbated in children with multiple risks, including poverty, and non-optimal caregiving environments \[ 31 \]. There are some limitations in this study. First, our sample size is small. We tried to collect around 40 cases, but the motivations of those mothers were low. This make the cases of the study may be not representative of this population. Second, this study does not have a control group. Third, because heroin or other illicit drugs using during pregnancy is also a risk factor for development deficit in infants and some patients in the study had opioid response in their urine. In sum, this is a pilot study about the developmental delay of children whose mothers are under MMT during pregnancy. Our result suggests that infants exposed to opiates in-utero are at risk of neuro-developmental impairment. Among the opiate-exposed infants, the language scale and cognitive scale are lower than average. Not only is psycho-education helpful for methadone using mothers, but early intervention from a psychiatrist is necessary for opiate-exposed children. We believe further prospective studies are warranted to confirm the results of this study. The nurse Shu-Hui Peng helped to get into contact with patients during this research. Authors are requested to submit articles directly to Online Manuscript Submission System of respective journal. Research Article - Neuropsychiatry Volume 6, Issue 4. Figure 1: The participant flowchart.

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