Postpartum Mental Health Care Use Among Parents During Simultaneous Parental Leave.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Flexible parental leave schemes can help families balance work, childcare, and postpartum treatment, including treatment for mental health. In Sweden, both parents are eligible to use parental leave simultaneously in the first year after birth; however, the consequences for postpartum mental health care uptake remain underinvestigated.

Objective

To examine the association between parents' use of simultaneous parental leave and their use of postpartum mental health care in Sweden.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study obtained baseline data from national registries in Sweden, including live births of singleton offspring between January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2015, and simultaneous parental leave use (any vs none) in the 12 months after birth.

SUBMITTER: Honkaniemi H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11474414 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature