CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 72Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and PostpartumGlobal Maternal and Child HealthMaternal and Neonatal Healthcare

Association of Antepartum and Postpartum Depression in Ghanaian and Ivorian Women With Febrile Illness in Their Offspring: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study

Guo, Nan, Bindt, Carola, Te Bonle, Marguerite, Appiah-Poku, John, Hinz, Rebecca, Barthel, Dana, Koffi, Mathurin, Posdzich, Sarah +26 more·2013·American Journal of Epidemiology
DOI 10.1093/aje/kwt142
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

In low-income countries, perinatal depression is common, but longitudinal data on its influence on child health are rare. We examined the association between maternal depression and febrile illness in children. There were 654 mother/child dyads in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire that were enrolled in a prospective birth cohort in 2010-2011 and underwent 2-years of follow up. Mothers were examined for depression using the Patient Health Questionnaire depression module antepartum and 3 and 12 months postpartum. The hazard of febrile illness in children of depressed and nondepressed mothers was estimated using a recurrent event Cox proportional hazards model. The prevalences of antepartum depression in mothers from Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana were 28.3% and 26.3%, respectively. The prevalences of depression at 3 and 12 months postpartum were 11.8% and 16.1% (Côte d'Ivoire) and 8.9% and 7.2% (Ghana). The crude and adjusted (for country and socioeconomic status) hazard ratios of febrile illness in children of depressed mothers compared with those in children of nondepressed mothers were 1.57 (95% confidence interval: 1.20, 2.07) and 1.32 (95% confidence interval: 1.01, 1.74) respectively. Perinatal depression was frequent and associated with febrile illness in the offspring. Our results showed that a high prevalence of depression in sub-Saharan Africa may pose a serious public health threat to women and their offspring.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1093/aje/kwt142

Cites

44 of 44 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Guo, N., Bindt, C., Te Bonle, M., Appiah-Poku, J., Hinz, R., Barthel, D., Koffi, M., Posdzich, S., Deymann, S., Barkmann, C., Schlüter, L., Jaeger, A., Blay Nguah, S., Eberhardt, K. A., N'Goran, E., Tagbor, H., Ehrhardt, S., for the International CDS Study Group, Baum, J., Burchard, G. D., Claussen, L., Ewert, H., Feldt, T., Fordjour, D., Hahn, A., Koffi, J. E., Kra, E., Loag, W., May, J., Mohammed, Y., Osei, Y., Reime, B., Schoppen, S., & Tannich, E.
Affiliations
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
  • University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (DE)
  • Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (DE)
  • Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé (CI)
  • Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (CI)
  • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (GH)
Corresponding author
Ehrhardt, Stephan
ORCID
Venue
American Journal of Epidemiology
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2013-09-07
Volume
178
Issue
9
Pages
1394-1402
ISSN
  • 0002-9262 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-6256
DOI
10.1093/aje/kwt142
OpenAlex
W2117089929
Cited by
72
References
44
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 6 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 1
FWCI
4.08
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • American Journal of Epidemiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Repository of Futwangen University of Applied Sciences (Furtwangen University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
Keywords
perinatal depression, antenatal depression, postpartum depression, maternal depression, childhood febrile illness, child health, mother-child dyads, sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, socioeconomic status
MeSH terms
Adult, Age Factors, Breast Feeding, Depression, Depressive Disorder, Female, Fever, Ghana, Health Status, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Cote d'Ivoire, Mothers, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Complications, Pregnancy Trimester, Third, Prospective Studies, Residence Characteristics, Risk Factors, Social Class, Prevalence, Depression, Postpartum

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review