ArticlePediatrics2014
A longitudinal study of paternal mental health during transition to fatherhood as young adults.
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Integrating Text Messages Into the Mothers and Babies Course to Address Depression in Low-Income Women and Their Partners
Integrating Text Messages Into the Mothers and Babies Course to Address Depression in Low-Income Women and Their Partners
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58 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Assessing the Mental Health of Fathers, Other Co-parents, and Partners in the Perinatal Period: Mixed Methods Evidence Synthesis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Relations between Early Childhood Paternal Depression and Preschool- and School-age Psychosocial Functioning.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Trial
- The Role of Fathers in the Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.Current obesity reports · 2026Review
- Paternal Depression in the Child's First Year of Life and Subsequent Father-Child Co-Residence.Academic pediatrics · 2026Article
- Psychiatric Disorders Among Fathers in Sweden Before, During, and After Partner Pregnancy.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Intrinsic resting-state connectivity and personal meaning across the transition to fatherhood.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Father wellbeing: self-efficacy, positive engagement, and reading with children.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Social Support: Fathers' Depressive Symptoms and Parenting Stress.Journal of family issues · 2025Article
- Paternal Health and Health Behaviors During the Perinatal Period: Results from a Representative Survey of Fathers in Georgia, 2018-2019.Maternal and child health journal · 2025Article
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- The impact of paternal mental illness on child development: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Review
- Longitudinal Changes in Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiovascular Health During the Transition to Fatherhood: The Dad Bod Study Rationale and Design.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Fatherhood and Cardiovascular Health, Disease, and Mortality: Associations From the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.AJPM focus · 2024Article
- The design and implementation of a multi-center, pragmatic, individual-level randomized controlled trial to evaluate Baby2Home, an mHealth intervention to support new parents.Contemporary clinical trials · 2024Article
- Risk and Protective Factors Experienced by Fathers of Refugee Background during the Early Years of Parenting: A Qualitative Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies validating Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in fathers.Heliyon · 2022Article
- Working out dads (WOD): a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of a group-based peer support intervention for men experiencing mental health difficulties in early fatherhood.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Differential Trajectories of Fathers' Postpartum Depressed Mood: A Latent Class Growth Analysis Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Development and Psychometric Testing of the Mental Health Scale for Childrearing Fathers.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectiveRates of paternal depression range from 5% to 10% with a growing body of literature describing the harm to fathers, children, and families. Changes in depression symptoms over the life course, and the role of social factors, are not well known. This study examines associations with changes in depression symptoms during the transition to fatherhood for young fathers and whether this association differed by key social factors.
methodsWe combined all 4 waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to support a 23-year longitudinal analysis of 10 623 men and then created a "fatherhood-year" data set, regressing age-adjusted standardized depressive symptoms scores on fatherhood status (nonresidence/residence), fatherhood-years, and covariates to determine associations between Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale scores and fatherhood life course intervals.
resultsDepressive symptom scores reported at the entry into fatherhood are higher for nonresident fathers than nonfathers, which in turn are higher than those of resident fathers. Resident fathers have a significant decrease in scores during late adolescence (β = -0.035, P = .023), but a significant increase in scores during early fatherhood (β = 0.023, P = .041). From entrance into fatherhood to the end of early fatherhood (+5 years), the depressive symptoms score for resident fathers increases on average by 68%.
conclusionsIn our longitudinal, population-based study, resident fathers show increasing depressive symptom scores during children's key attachment years of 0-5. Identifying at-risk fathers based on social factors and designing effective interventions may ultimately improve health outcomes for the entire family.
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