Maternal depression trajectories from 3 months to 11 years postpartum and offspring body composition in early adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the effect of maternal depressive symptom trajectories, from 3 months to 11 years postpartum, on the offspring's body composition at 11 years of age.

Design

Data from the Pelotas 2004 Birth Cohort, from the perinatal interview and from the 3-, 12-, 24- and 48-month and 6- and 11-year follow-ups.

Setting

Community-based sample from the city of Pelotas, located in southern Brazil with approximately 350 000 inhabitants. The maternal depression symptom trajectories were identified through a semi-parametric group-based modelling approach, using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), with data from 3 months to 11 years postpartum.

Participants

A total of 3467 (81·9 % of the total cohort).

Results

Five trajectory groups of EPD

SUBMITTER: Farias-Antunez S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11374554 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature