Common perinatal mental disorders and post-infancy child development in rural Ethiopia: A population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether maternal common mental disorders (CMD) in the postnatal period are prospectively associated with child development at 2.5 and 3.5 years in a rural low-income African setting.

Methods

This study was nested within the C-MaMiE (Child outcomes in relation to Maternal Mental health in Ethiopia) population-based cohort in Butajira, Ethiopia, and conducted from 2005 to 2006. The sample comprised of 496 women who had recently given birth to living, singleton babies with recorded birth weight measurements, who were 15 to 44 years of age, and residing in six rural sub-districts. Postnatal CMD measurements were ascertained 2 months after delivery. Language, cognitive, and motor development were obtained from the child 2.5 and 3.5 years after birth using

SUBMITTER: Dunn JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9305759 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature