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Maternal depression increases risk for same disorder in children.
2003 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Even relatively brief episodes of maternal major depression, or prolonged mild depression, are predictive of a child's risk for developing depressive disorders by age 15, according to an article in the March issue of The Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Previous studies have shown that having a depressed parent is one of the strongest predictors of depression in youth, according to information in the article.
Constance Hammen, PhD, of the University of California in Los Angeles, and Patricia A. Brennan, PhD, of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, investigated how the timing, severity and duration of a mother's depression affects her children.
The researchers studied 816 women and their 15-year old children in an Australian community. Measurements of maternal depression severity and duration and the dates of occurrence allowed the researchers to analyze how the relative severity, timing, and duration of maternal depression affected youth depressive and nondepressive disorders.
The researchers found that children who had ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Maternal depression increases risk for same disorder in children.