Prenatal maternal depression is associated with low birth weight through shorter gestational age in term infants in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Maternal prenatal depression is associated with lower offspring birth weight, yet the impact of gestational age on this association remains inadequately understood.

Aims

We aimed to investigate the effect of prenatal depression on low birth weight, gestational age, and weight for gestational age at term.

Study design

Prospective cohort study.

Subject

Data were collected from 691 women in their third trimester of pregnancy who went on to give birth to a singleton at term without perinatal complications. One hundred and fifty-two women had a Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale-10 score ≥10 and were classed as prenatally depressed.

Outcome measures

Low birth weight (<2500g), gestational age at birth, and birth weight percentile for

SUBMITTER: Chang HY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5365071 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature