New Study Looks At The Effects Of Maternal Exposure To Oil Spill On Their Children's Mental Health

A new study published in PLOS One looked at maternal exposure to oil spill and children’s mental health and the mediating role of resource loss. After the Deepwater Horizon (BP) Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, the study researchers established the WaTCH Study and began interviewing and collecting biomarkers on women and children living in the seven Louisiana parishes (counties) in closest proximity to the oil spill to assess short and long-term health effects. “We’ve collected thr