Depressive symptoms and parental stress in mothers and fathers 25 months after birth
| Autor: | Ulf Stenström, Idor Svensson, Pamela Massoudi, Maude Johansson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Population Mothers Pediatrics Depression Postpartum Fathers 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Childbirth Interpersonal Relations Longitudinal Studies Prospective Studies 030212 general & internal medicine Parent-Child Relations education Psychiatry Depressive symptoms Depression (differential diagnoses) media_common Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Sweden education.field_of_study 030227 psychiatry Feeling Spouse Child Preschool Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Cohort Female Psychology Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child Health Care. 21:65-73 |
| ISSN: | 1741-2889 1367-4935 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms, feelings of incompetence and spouse relationship problems and their mutual relations. Data from a Swedish parent–infant population-based cohort 25 months after childbirth was used. A questionnaire containing Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and a modified Swedish Parental Stress Questionnaire (SPSQ) regarding depression and parental stress was answered by 646 fathers and 700 mothers. Parents with depressive symptoms experienced more feelings of incompetence and spouse relationship problems than parents without depressive symptoms. The prevalence of depressive symptoms (EPDS ≥ 12) was more than11% for mothers and nearly 5% for fathers in the sample, 25 months after childbirth. The result indicated that feelings of incompetence and spouse relationship problems could be important constructs for understanding parental stress and depressive symptoms in the parents of young children. In conclusion, it is important that Child Health Care is attentive to both mothers’ and fathers’ depressive symptoms and parental stress after the first year. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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