ReviewInfant behavior & development2010
Postpartum depression effects on early interactions, parenting, and safety practices: a review.
Review in Infant behavior & development, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 488 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Proactive, Personalized Postpartum Mental Healthcare (P3MH): Designing and Testing an eHealth Intervention to Deliver Proactive, Personalized Postpartum Mental Healthcare for New Parents in Primary Care
Whole-Body Hyperthermia for Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Who cites it
488 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 1,481 citations in OpenAlex.
- Isolated physical activity programs during pregnancy and postpartum: Meta-analysis of randomized trials with usual-care controls on depressive and anxiety symptoms.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Pooled it
- Doula Care and Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review.JAMA network open · 2026Pooled it
- Screening instruments for antenatal and postpartum mental health disorders in migrant women: a systematic review.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Peripartum allopregnanolone blood concentrations and depressive symptoms: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of an exercise intervention on maternal depression, anxiety, and fatigue: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture in patients with postpartum depression: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Parental Postnatal Depression in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review of Its Effects on the Parent-Child Relationship and the Child's Developmental Outcomes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Effect of physical activity on prevention of postpartum depression: A dose-response meta-analysis of 186,412 women.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- When the Bough Breaks: A systematic review and meta-analysis of mental health symptoms in mothers of young children during the COVID-19 pandemic.Infant mental health journal · 2022Pooled it
- The evolution of research on depression during COVID-19: A visual analysis using Co-Occurrence and VOSviewer.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Poor vitamin D status and the risk of maternal depression: a dose-response meta-analysis of observational studies.Public health nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of home-based integrated sensory stimulation program to preterm infants on parents' depression and anxiety: a randomized controlled trial.Global health action · 2025Trial
- Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Preventing Postpartum Depressive Symptoms Among Pregnant Individuals With Depression: Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial in China.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- Practical resources for effective postpartum parenting (PREPP): a randomized controlled trial of a novel parent-infant dyadic intervention to reduce symptoms of postpartum depression.American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM · 2024Trial
- The association between perinatal depressive symptoms and child neurodevelopment.American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM · 2024Trial
- Effects of Fetal Images Produced in Virtual Reality on Maternal-Fetal Attachment: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Trial
- Daily mother-infant skin-to-skin contact and maternal mental health and postpartum healing: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Maternal postnatal depression and sensitive parenting: Considering developmental timing with a causally informative approach.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Perinatal Depression and Infant Mortality.JAMA network open · 2026Article
428 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
In this paper studies are reviewed from the last decade on postpartum depression effects on early interactions, parenting, safety practices and on early interventions. The interaction disturbances of depressed mothers and their infants appear to be universal, across different cultures and socioeconomic status groups and, include less sensitivity of the mothers and responsivity of the infants. Several caregiving activities also appear to be compromised by postpartum depression including feeding practices, most especially breastfeeding, sleep routines and well-child visits, vaccinations and safety practices. These data highlight the need for universal screening of maternal and paternal depression during the postpartum period. Early interventions reviewed here include psychotherapy and interaction coaching for the mothers, and infant massage for their infants.
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