Association between maternal depression and anxiety episodes and rates of childhood injuries: a cohort study from England

Abstract

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Parental mental health conditions and use of healthcare services in children the first year of life – a register-based, nationwide study

“…These factors are related to parental healthcare behavior, healthcare service-related factors and the health of the child. First, it has been argued that mothers with depression/anxiety are more likely to seek medical care for their child's minor injuries [10]. Furthermore, prenatal anxiety was associated with less parenting self-e cacy [36] and higher levels of stress [36,37] which could consequently lead to increasing parental need of medical guidance and assessment.…”

“…Poor parental mental health has been associated with a number of negative short-and long-term consequences for the health and well-being of a child. These consequences include the increased use of healthcare services [1,2,11,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Although it is generally acknowledged that both fathers and mothers in uence their children's health and lives [12][13][14][15][16], the father's role has rarely been examined.…”

“…Although it is generally acknowledged that both fathers and mothers in uence their children's health and lives [12][13][14][15][16], the father's role has rarely been examined. In most studies of child healthcare, the father's mental health are not included at all [1,3,6,7,[9][10][11]. Other studies have analyze father's mental health only as a control variable for which adjustments are made [2,5,17].…”

“…Maternal depression based on either diagnoses or self-reported symptoms has been examined extensively and found to be positively associated with both hospitalization of the child [1,[3][4][5][6][7] and utilization of the emergency department [4,5,7,8]. Moreover, children of mothers with depressive symptoms have been reported to visit general practice more [2,4,5,8,9,11] and have been observed to have an increased risk of injury [10]. Maternal anxiety has also been studied and the ndings have generally been comparable with the ndings for depression in mothers [10].…”

“…Moreover, children of mothers with depressive symptoms have been reported to visit general practice more [2,4,5,8,9,11] and have been observed to have an increased risk of injury [10]. Maternal anxiety has also been studied and the ndings have generally been comparable with the ndings for depression in mothers [10]. Although mental health conditions such as depression include a wide range of symptoms, severities, and thus disabilities, existing literature does not distinguish between different severities of studied diagnoses or symptoms.…”