ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2022
Depressive Symptoms in Expecting Fathers: Is Paternal Perinatal Depression a Valid Concept? A Systematic Review of Evidence.
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- Bodies on Display: A Scoping Review of Appearance-Focused Social Media, Body Image, Self-Esteem, and Psychological Wellbeing in Adolescent Girls and Young Women.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Review
- Transition to fatherhood among first-time expectant fathers having couvade syndrome in northern Thailand: A grounded theory study.Belitung nursing journal · 2026Article
- The prevalence of postpartum depression and associated characteristics in fathers of newborns in Yazd City in 2023: A cross-sectional study.International journal of reproductive biomedicine · 2025Article
- Screening Measures of Perinatal Mental Health and Wellbeing in Fathers: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- The Association Between Psychosocial Stress and Perinatal Maternal Depressive Symptoms: A Case-Control Study in a Regional Medical Center in Hungary.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
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- A Psychometric Study of the Perinatal Assessment of Maternal Affectivity (PAMA) for the Screening of Perinatal Affective Disorders in Mothers.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Depressive Symptoms during Pregnancy: Prevalence and Correlates with Affective Temperaments and Psychosocial Factors.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundSince the identification of Couvade syndrome in the late 1950s, little attention has been dedicated to the issue of depression in expecting fathers.
objectiveTo quantify the extent of depression in expecting fathers and find out if they match their pregnant partners' depression.
methodsWe conducted a PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov search using paternal depression and all its variants as terms. We used the
resultsWe identified a grand total of 1443 articles, of which 204 were eligible. The total number of fathers/expecting fathers involved was 849,913. Longitudinal studies represented more than half of the included studies; more than three-quarters of the studies used the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). The average occurrence of paternal depression was around 5%, which confers the entity some clinical dignity. Depression tends to occur more in expecting women and new mothers than in expecting partners or new fathers, while the co-occurrence in the same couple is quite low. LIMITATIONS: The methodological heterogeneity of the included studies prevents us from meta-analyzing the obtained data. The validity of the instruments used is another issue.
conclusionsPaternal depression is distinct from maternal depression and occurs at lower rates (about half). The very existence of a paternal depression clinical entity is beyond any doubt. Future research should address methodological heterogeneity.
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