Perinatal depression prevention through the mother-infant dyad: The role of maternal childhood maltreatment
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Vanessa Babineau; Elizabeth Werner; Seonjoo Lee; Tianshu Feng; Obianuju O. Berry; Pamela Scorza; Catherine Monk
- Source
- J Affect Disord
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Mothers
Article
law.invention
Depression, Postpartum
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Randomized controlled trial
law
Rating scale
Pregnancy
Intervention (counseling)
medicine
Humans
Child Abuse
Psychiatry
Child
Depression (differential diagnoses)
business.industry
Depression
Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression
Infant
Mother-Child Relations
030227 psychiatry
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Anxiety
Female
medicine.symptom
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Perinatal Depression
Dyad
- Language
- ISSN
- 1573-2517
BACKGROUND: Prevention studies for perinatal depression rarely focus on the mother–infant dyad or consider the impact of maternal childhood maltreatment (CM). METHODS: A secondary analysis of two combined randomized controlled trials of Practical Resources for Effective Postpartum Parenting (PREPP) examined the moderating role of CM on the efficacy of preventing perinatal depression and effects on infant behavior at six weeks. RESULTS: 32% of 109 pregnant women endorsed CM (CM+). At six weeks postpartum, women who received PREPP compared to enhanced treatment as usual (ETAU) had significant reductions in depression and anxiety based on the observer-rated Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) and Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HRSA) (mean difference of M=−3.84 (SD= 0.14, p