ArticleArchives of women's mental health2019
Transition to parenthood and mental health at 30 years: a prospective comparison of mothers and fathers in a large Brazilian birth cohort.
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- Perinatal Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms and Maternal Parenting Behavior During the First Three Years Postpartum: A Systematic Review.Depression and anxiety · 2025Pooled it
- The association between the transition to parenthood and risk for nonfatal suicide attempt in a Swedish population-based sample.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Between leaves and lives: Maternal mental health among tea garden workers in Bangladesh and its association with children's behavioural difficulties.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Identifying subtypes based on environmental and neurobiological risk and resilience factors of postpartum maternal mental health.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Parental Leave Benefits and Maternal Postpartum Mental Health in Sweden.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Common mental disorders in São Paulo city, 2003-2015: population-based serial cross-sectional panel studies.Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil · 2025Article
- Prevalence of mental disorders among Australian females: Comparison according to motherhood status using Australian birth cohort data.Archives of women's mental health · 2024Article
- Parenthood and psychological distress among English Millennials during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the Next Steps cohort study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Article
- Factors That Shape Women's Physical Activity: Development of the Reasons to Participate in Physical Activity Scale (RPPAS).Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Anxiety among multiparous women in the Al-Qatif sector of KSA: A mixed-method study.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
Parenthood represents a major biological, social and environmental life change. Mental health disorders are common in parents and impact both the parent and their offspring. However, the relationship between parenthood and mental health and the direction of these effects are poorly understood. Longitudinal data from the Pelotas 1982 birth cohort, Southern Brazil, on 3701 individuals was used to investigate the association between number of children by age 30 years and mental health disorders using DSM-IV diagnoses at age 30 years, suicidal risk and the change in symptoms using repeated measures (using the SRQ-20) from age 19 to 30 years. Mothers, but not fathers, with higher number of children by age 30 years, were at a substantially increased risk of a wide range of mental health disorders compared to women with no children. There was evidence that motherhood was associated with an increase in symptoms over time rather than higher symptoms at baseline. Younger age at first child was also a risk factor for mental health disorders. Mothers, particularly those with multiple children, are at risk of a wide range of mental health disorders. The mechanisms to explain these risks are yet to be elucidated; however, the risk of mental health disorders was not replicated in fathers, which would be expected if residual confounding explained observed associations. Thus, multiparous mothers represent a high-risk group and should be prioritised for supportive interventions.
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