Cohort profile: the U-BIRTH study on peripartum depression and child development in Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The current U-BIRTH cohort (Uppsala Birth Cohort) extends our previous cohort Biology, Affect, Stress, Imaging and Cognition (BASIC), assessing the development of children up to 11 years after birth. The U-BIRTH study aims to (1) assess the impact of exposure to peripartum mental illness on the children's development taking into account biological and environmental factors during intrauterine life and childhood; (2) identify early predictors of child neurodevelopmental and psychological problems using biophysiological, psychosocial and environmental variables available during pregnancy and early post partum.

Participants

All mothers participating in the previous BASIC cohort are invited, and mother-child dyads recruited in the U-BIRTH study are consecutively invited

SUBMITTER: Tu HF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10649626 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature