ArticlePeerJ2018
Postnatal depression is associated with detrimental life-long and multi-generational impacts on relationship quality.
Article in PeerJ, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The effectiveness of mother-led infant massage on symptoms of maternal postnatal depression: A systematic review.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- Introducing and establishing birth companionship in labour ward of a tertiary care centre in North India: a quality improvement journey through and beyond COVID-19 pandemic.BMJ open quality · 2025Article
- Real-World Outcomes of Brexanolone to Treat Postpartum Depression.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Using estrogen and progesterone to treat premenstrual dysphoric disorder, postnatal depression and menopausal depression.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
- Risk of postpartum depressive symptoms is influenced by psychological burden related to the COVID-19 pandemic and dependent of individual stress coping.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2023Article
- Postpartum depression: The prevalence and associated factors among women attending postnatal clinics in the Bawku municipality, Upper East Region of Ghana.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2023Article
- Associations between breastfeeding intention, breastfeeding practices and post-natal depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-country cross-sectional study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Article
- The Influence of Maternal Psychological Manifestations on the Mother-Child Couple during the Early COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Hospitals in Timisoara, Romania.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- Quality of life, depressive symptoms, anxiety, and sexual function in mothers of neonates with congenital syphilis in the Northeast Brazil: A cohort study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2022Article
- The quality of father-child feeding interactions mediates the effect of maternal depression on children's psychopathological symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Prevalence and factors associated with post-partum depression in a rural area of Cameroon: a cross-sectional study.The Pan African medical journal · 2022Article
- Prenatal and Postnatal Anxiety and Depression in Mothers during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- "We do not know how to screen and provide treatment": a qualitative study of barriers and enablers of implementing perinatal depression health services in Ethiopia.International journal of mental health systems · 2021Article
- Is physical activity in pregnancy associated with prenatal and postnatal depressive symptoms?: Results from MAASTHI cohort study in South India.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2021Article
- Depression, obesity and their comorbidity during pregnancy: effects on the offspring's mental and physical health.Molecular psychiatry · 2021Review
- Communication Across Maternal Social Networks During England's First National Lockdown and Its Association With Postnatal Depressive Symptoms.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Cultural Adaptation of Community Informant Tool for Detection of Maternal Depression in Rural Pakistan.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Prevalence and associated factors of postpartum depression among postpartum mothers in central region, Eritrea: a health facility based survey.BMC public health · 2020Article
- The Need for Universal Screening for Postnatal Depression in South Africa: Confirmation from a Sub-District in Pretoria, South Africa.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Screening for postpartum depression: obligation and opportunity for pediatricians to improve the lives of children.Pediatric research · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Postnatal depression (PND) is known to be associated with a range of detrimental child and adolescent outcomes, resulting from its disruptive impact on mother-child relationship quality. However, until now little has been known about the impact of PND on the longer-term relationships between mothers and their children, and any intergenerational effects this may have. Mother-child relationship quality is of interest from an evolutionary perspective as it plays a role in the accrual of offspring embodied capital, thus affecting offspring quality and offspring's capacity to subsequently invest in their own children. Relationships with offspring also mediate grandparent-grandchild relations; if PND negatively affects long-term mother-offspring relationship quality, it is also likely to negatively affect grandmaternal investment via reduced grandmother-grandchild relationship quality. Here, we use responses to a retrospective questionnaire study of postmenopausal women, largely from the UK and US, to assess the impact of PND occurring in generation 1 on mother-child relationship quality across the life course of the child (generation 2) with whom it was associated, and also on the relationship quality with grandchildren (generation 3) from that child. Average mother-child relationship quality was lower when the child's birth was associated with PND. Multi-level regression modelling found that mother-child relationship quality decreased as PND symptom severity increased after controlling for individual effects and a variety of other factors known to influence relationship quality (individual mothers
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.