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ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2022

From adolescence to parenthood: a multi-decade study of preconception mental health problems and postpartum parent-infant bonds.

J A Macdonald, C Greenwood, P Letcher, E A Spry, H M McAnally, K Thomson, D Hutchinson, G J Youssef, J McIntosh, R J Hancox and 2 more

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Article in Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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12 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

J A MacdonaldCentre for Social and Early Emotional Development, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, 225 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia. jacqui.macdonald@deakin.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9451-2709
C GreenwoodCentre for Social and Early Emotional Development, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, 225 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia.
P LetcherDepartment of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, The Royal Children's Hospital Campus, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
E A SpryCentre for Social and Early Emotional Development, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, 225 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia.
H M McAnallyDepartment of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
K ThomsonCentre for Social and Early Emotional Development, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, 225 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia.
D HutchinsonCentre for Social and Early Emotional Development, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, 225 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia.
G J YoussefCentre for Social and Early Emotional Development, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, 225 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia.
J McIntoshCentre for Social and Early Emotional Development, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, 225 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia.
R J HancoxDepartment of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
G C PattonDepartment of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, The Royal Children's Hospital Campus, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
C A OlssonCentre for Social and Early Emotional Development, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, 225 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5927-2014
Royal Children's Hospital · AUUniversity of Otago · NZ

Funding

Australian Research Council DP160103160Australian Research Council DP180102447Australian Research Council (AU) DP130101459National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia APP1082406
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo examine associations between anxiety and depressive symptoms across adolescence and young adulthood with subsequent maternal- and paternal-infant bonding at 1 year postpartum.

methodsThe data were from a prospective, intergenerational cohort study. Participants (381 mothers of 648 infants; 277 fathers of 421 infants) self-reported depression and anxiety at three adolescent waves (ages 13, 15 and 17 years) and three young adult waves (ages 19, 23 and 27 years). Subsequent parent-infant bonds with infants were reported at 1 year postpartum (parent age 29-35 years). Generalised estimating equations (GEE) separately assessed associations for mothers and fathers.

resultsMean postpartum bonding scores were approximately half a standard deviation lower in parents with a history of persistent adolescent and young adult depressive symptoms (maternal β

conclusionsPersistent symptoms of depression or anxiety spanning adolescence and young adulthood predict poorer emotional bonding with infants 1-year postbirth for both mothers and fathers.

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Depression, PostpartumMental HealthAdolescentAdultCohort StudiesDepressionFathersFemaleHumansInfantMaleMothersPostpartum PeriodProspective StudiesYoung AdultAdolescenceAnxietyDepressionParent–infant bondPostpartum

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