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. 2024 Oct;27(5):827-836.
doi: 10.1007/s00737-024-01463-z. Epub 2024 Apr 9.

"Association between perinatal mood disorders of parents and child health outcomes"

Erika Obikane  1   2 , Hayato Yamana  3   4 , Sachiko Ono  5 , Hideo Yasunaga  3 , Norito Kawakami  6
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"Association between perinatal mood disorders of parents and child health outcomes"

Erika Obikane et al. Arch Womens Ment Health. 2024 Oct.

Abstract

Purpose: Perinatal mood disorders affect both parents, impacting their children negatively. Little is known on the association between parental perinatal mood disorders and pediatric outcomes in Japan considering relevant covariates. Our objective was to investigate the association between paternal and maternal perinatal mood disorders and adverse physical and psychological child outcomes by the age of 36 months, adjusting for covariates such as the child's sex, age of parent at child's birth, perinatal mood disorders of the other parent, and perinatal antidepressant use.

Methods: We identified parents in the JMDC Claims Database in Japan from 2012 to 2020. Perinatal mood disorders were defined using International Classification of Diseases, 10th codes for mood disorders during the perinatal period combined with psychiatric treatment codes. We evaluated the association between parental perinatal mood disorders and pediatric adverse outcomes by the age of 36 months using Cox proportional hazard models adjusted for the covariates.

Results: Of the 116,423 father-mother-child triads, 2.8% of fathers and 2.3% of mothers had perinatal mood disorders. Paternal perinatal mood disorders were not significantly associated with adverse child outcomes. After adjusting for paternal perinatal mood disorders and antidepressant use, maternal perinatal mood disorders were associated with delayed motor development, language development disorders, autism spectrum disorders, and behavioral and emotional disorders (adjusted hazard ratio [95% confidence interval]: 1.65 [1.01-2.69], 2.26 [1.36-3.75], 4.16 [2.64-6.55], and 6.12 [1.35-27.81], respectively).

Conclusions: Paternal perinatal mood disorders were not associated with adverse child outcomes in this population. Maternal perinatal mood disorders were associated with multiple child outcomes.

Keywords: Child health; Maternal depression; Mental health; Paternal depression; Perinatal depression.

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