scholarly journals Maternal depression and childhood injury risk: A population‐based cohort study in Denmark

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bente Kjær Lyngsøe ◽  
Trine Munk‐Olsen ◽  
Claus Høstrup Vestergaard ◽  
Dorte Rytter ◽  
Kaj Sparle Christensen ◽  
...  
PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. e111631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Orton ◽  
Denise Kendrick ◽  
Joe West ◽  
Laila J. Tata

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (667) ◽  
pp. e97-e104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bente Kjær Lyngsøe ◽  
Claus Høstrup Vestergaard ◽  
Dorte Rytter ◽  
Mogens Vestergaard ◽  
Trine Munk-Olsen ◽  
...  

BackgroundDepression is a common and potentially debilitating illness worldwide. Attendance to routine childcare appointments is a key point of interest in the effort to improve the health and care for families facing depression.AimTo evaluate the association between maternal depression and offspring non-attendance to the Danish childcare and vaccination programme (CCP) for children from 0–5 years of age. The CCP consists of seven separate visits and several vaccinations. To investigate if exposure to recent and previous depression may affect attendance differently.Design and settingPopulation-based cohort study using Danish nationwide registers.MethodParticipants were all live-born children (n = 853 315) in Denmark in the period from 1 January 2000 until 31 August 2013, and their mothers. The outcome of interest was non-attendance of each one of the seven scheduled childcare visits and two vaccination entities in the CCP. Exposure was maternal (both previous and recent) depression. All information was obtained from Danish national registries.ResultsThe risk of not attending CCP was higher for children of mothers with depression. For children of mothers with previous depression, the relative risk (RR) was 1.01 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.98 to 1.03) at the 5-week childcare visit, and 1.12 (95% CI = 1.09 to 1.14) at the 5-year childcare visit. For children of mothers with recent depression, the RR was 1.07 (95% CI = 1.03 to 1.13) at the 5-week visit, and 1.15 (95% CI = 1.13 to 1.17) at the 5-year visit. Furthermore, the risk of missing at least four of the seven childcare visits was higher for children of females with maternal depression (RR = 1.16, 95% CI = 1.13 to 1.19).ConclusionMaternal depression seems to compromise CCP attendance. These findings suggest a need for careful clinical attention to these vulnerable families, even years after a diagnosis of depression.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0258966
Author(s):  
Sinead Brophy ◽  
Charlotte Todd ◽  
Muhammad A. Rahman ◽  
Natasha Kennedy ◽  
Frances Rice

Background Maternal depression is a risk factor for depression in children, though the influence of paternal depression has been less well examined. We examined the association between maternal and paternal depression, and the timing of their depression (before or after the child’s birth) and outcomes for the child including incidence of child depression and poor educational attainment. Methods A linked routine data cohort study linking General Practitioner(GP), hospital and education records of young people (aged 0 to 30 years) in Wales. Parental and child diagnosis of depression was identified from GP data. Regression analysis examined the association of maternal and paternal depression with time to diagnosis of depression in the child and odds of attaining educational milestones. Outcomes In adjusted models, the relative risk of offspring developing depression was 1.22 if the mother had depression before the child was born, 1.55 if the mother had depression after the child was born and 1.73 if she had depression both before and after the child was born (chronic depression), compared to those were there was no maternal depression history. For achieving milestones at end of primary school, odds were 0.92, 0.88 and 0.79 respectively. Association of depression in the child was similar if the male living in the household had depression with risk ratios of 1.24 (before), 1.43 (after) and 1.27 (before and after) for child diagnosed depression and 0.85, 0.79 and 0.74 for achieving age 11 milestones. Interpretation Children who live with a parent who has depression are more likely to develop depression and not achieve educational milestones, compared to children who live with a parent who has a history of depression (but no active depression in child’s lifetime) and compared to those with no depression. This finding suggests that working closely with families where depression (particularly chronic depression) is present in either parent and treating parental depression to remission is likely to have long-term benefits for children’s mental health and educational attainment.


The Lancet ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 386 ◽  
pp. S21
Author(s):  
Ruth Baker ◽  
Laila J Tata ◽  
Elizabeth Orton ◽  
Denise Kendrick

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (680) ◽  
pp. e182-e189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bente K Lyngsøe ◽  
Dorte Rytter ◽  
Trine Munk-Olsen ◽  
Claus H Vestergaard ◽  
Kaj S Christensen ◽  
...  

BackgroundDepression is a common mental illness worldwide. The offspring of a mother with depression has higher risk of developing mental and physical illness.AimThis study aimed to investigate the association between the timing of maternal depression and the use of primary health care for the offspring.Design and settingA population-based birth cohort study in Danish primary care using Danish national registers.MethodAll Danish children born between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2013 (n = 869 140 children) were included in the study. The primary outcome was number and type of annual contacts with the GP. The secondary outcome was specific services used by the GP to assess inflammatory and infectious disease in the children. Exposure was maternal depression of four categories: non-depressed, recent, previous, and past depression. The association was expressed as adjusted incidence rate ratios (IRR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).ResultsMaternal depression was associated with a higher use of primary health care for all three categories of depression. The strongest association was found for children of a mother with recent depression; they had 16% more contacts than children of a non-depressed mother (adjusted IRR = 1.16, 95% CI = 1.15 to 1.17), and 19–24% more positive infectious-related tests were found in this group.ConclusionExposure to maternal depression was associated with a significantly higher use of primary health care for the offspring for all exposure categories. These findings reveal that healthcare use is higher for the offspring exposed to maternal depression, even several years after expected remission. The higher ratio of positive tests indicates that exposed children are ill with infectious disease more often.


BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. e027251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing-Rui Wang ◽  
Ying-Yi Lu ◽  
Ying-Ju Su ◽  
Hao Qin ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
...  

ObjectiveTraumatic brain injury is now a major contributor to the global healthcare burden. Migraine is another debilitating disease with a global health impact. While most researchers agree that traumatic brain injury is a risk factor for migraine, whether migraine is a risk factor for traumatic brain injury still remains under debate. We therefore aimed to investigate whether migraine was a risk factor for developing traumatic brain injury.Study designRetrospective population-based cohort study.SettingData for people who had been diagnosed with migraine were retrieved from Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database.ParticipantsWe identified 7267 patients with newly diagnosed migraine during 1996–2010. The migraineurs to non-migraineurs ratio was set at 1:4 to enhance the power of statistical tests.Primary and secondary outcome measuresWe used multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression models to assess the effects of migraines on the risk of traumatic brain injury after adjusting for potential confounders.ResultsThe overall traumatic brain injury risk was 1.78 times greater in the migraine group compared with the non-migraine group after controlling for covariates. Additionally, patients with previous diagnoses of alcohol-attributed disease, mental disorders and diabetes mellitus had a significantly higher traumatic brain injury risk compared with those with no history of these diagnoses.ConclusionsThis study of a population-based database indicated that migraine is a traumatic brain injury risk factor. Greater attention to migraine-targeted treatment modalities may reduce traumatic brain injury-related morbidity and mortality.


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