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Maternal Depressive Symptomatology: 16-Month Follow-up of Infant and Maternal Health-Related Quality of Life
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PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to document risk factors for depressive symptoms during the postpartum period among working mothers and to determine longitudinal effects of depressive symptoms on maternal health-related quality of life and infant health and development. METHODS: Mother-infant dyads from a community-based cohort study of working mothers were recruited when infants were 4 months old and were interviewed every 4 months until infants were 16 months old. Depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life were assessed using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale and the Short Form-12 Health Survey, respectively. Infant development and health-related quality of life were measured with the Ages and Stages Questionnaire and the Infant-Toddler Quality of Life Questionnaire, respectively. RESULTS: Depressive symptoms were elevated among mothers who were younger, less educated, African American, unmarried, and impoverished. Mothers with significant depressive symptoms had significantly poorer physical and mental health-related quality of life, reported greater pain for their infant, and had more health-related concerns about their child. Maternal depressive symptoms at 4 months predicted infant poorer health-related quality of life at 8, 12, and 16 months. CONCLUSIONS: Several characteristics, including age, education level, race, marital status, and poverty, can help primary care physicians identify working mothers at risk for depressive symptoms. Identification of these symptoms is important; they are correlated with poorer maternal health-related quality of life and they predict poorer children's health-related quality of life.
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“Women with PPD had lower scores on all dimensions of quality of life (e.g. SF-36 or a generic Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) questionnaire) than women without PPD.”
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- Authors
- Darcy, J. M., Grzywacz, J. G., Stephens, R. L., Leng, I., Clinch, C. R., & Arcury, T. A.
- Affiliations
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences (US)
- Corresponding author
- Grzywacz, J. G.
- Venue
- The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
- Published
- 2011-05-01
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 249-257
- ISSN
- 1557-2625 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-7118
- PMC
- PMC3114440
- OpenAlex
- W2044852839
- Cited by
- 119
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R21HD048601, HD48601)
- 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 › Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- maternal depressive symptoms, postpartum depression, working mothers, health-related quality of life, infant development, risk factors, poverty, marital status, race, educational attainment, infant pain
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Health Status, Health Surveys, Humans, Infant, Infant Welfare, Infant, Newborn, Maternal Welfare, Mother-Child Relations, Pregnancy, Prospective Studies, Psychometrics, Quality of Life, Surveys and Questionnaires, Risk Factors, Time Factors, Multivariate Analysis, Chi-Square Distribution, Depression, Postpartum, Young Adult
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