Antenatal Depressive Symptoms and Neurodevelopment Outcomes in Children at 30 Months. A Study From South India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prevalence of antenatal depression in low and middle income countries is high. However studies examining the association between maternal antenatal depression and early childhood development from these countries are scarce. The objective of the study was to examine the association between antenatal depressive symptoms assessed serially during pregnancy and child neurodevelopment outcomes in mother-child dyads part of a randomized control trial of maternal B12 supplementation during pregnancy.

Method

Subjects were 203 women who had participated in the placebo-controlled, randomized trial of vitamin B12 supplementation during pregnancy and 6 weeks post-partum on whom serial assessments of depressive symptoms in each of the trimesters were available. Cognitive, recep

SUBMITTER: Thomas S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7541826 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature