Trajectories of depressive symptoms of mothers and fathers over 11 years

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11240/25:10497325 RIV/00216208:11310/25:10497325

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S2045796025000174" target="_blank" >10.1017/S2045796025000174</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Trajectories of depressive symptoms of mothers and fathers over 11 years

Original language description

Aims. Parental postpartum depressive symptoms have been extensively studied, but the combined longitudinal depression trajectories of parents and their long-term development beyond the postpartum period remain largely underexplored. We identified dyadic longitudinal depressive symptom trajectories in new parents, followed over an 11-year period, and compared parental characteristics, as well as child temperament and mental health factors, across different parental trajectory classes. Methods. A prenatal cohort of 5,518 couples was studied. Depressive symptoms were measured using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale at eight time points: in the prenatal stage, in the newborn stage, and at 6 months, 18 months, 3 years, 5 years, 7 years and 11 years after the birth of the child. Results. Dyadic Latent Class Growth Modelling identified five classes of couples: (1) mother has elevated depressive symptoms, father is non-depressed (24%); (2) both mother and father have elevated depressive symptoms (20%); (3) both mother and father are constantly non-depressed (42%); (4) both mother and father are constantly depressed (5%); and (5) mother is constantly depressed, father has elevated depressive symptoms (9%). Relationship maintenance (particularly being married or separated) was the most strongly associated with the classes. Socio-economic resources, emotional well-being, health, obstetric history and parental background also served as meaningful covariates. Child temperament and mental health showed weak correlations with parental trajectory classes. Conclusions. Parents with postpartum depressive symptoms often experience depressive symptoms long-term. Separated parents are particularly vulnerable to adverse depressive trajectories. Our findings underscore the importance of dyadic methods in estimating unique combinations of parental depression trajectories.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30300 - Health sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA23-05379S" target="_blank" >GA23-05379S: Exploring the dynamics of depressive symptoms in intimate relationships</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences

ISSN

2045-7960

e-ISSN

2045-7979

Volume of the periodical

34

Issue of the periodical within the volume

April

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

e23

UT code for WoS article

001462857200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105002811296