Journal
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL
Volume 53, Issue 4, Pages 420-431Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10597-016-0060-0
Keywords
Postpartum depression; Couples depression; Maternal; Paternal
Funding
- Alberta Innovates-Health Solutions
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- University of Calgary
- Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- MSI Foundation
- SickKids Foundation
- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute
- Alberta Innovates Biosolutions
- Dairy Farmers of Canada
- Women, Child Health Research Institute (University of Alberta)
- Alberta Children's Hospital
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Postpartum depression (PPD) is a growing mental health concern in new mothers and fathers. The purpose of this study was to determine the predictors of depression at 3 months postpartum, comparing depressed couples to couples with only one depressed partner or no depressed partner, using data from the Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition study. Data from mothers and fathers were collected at second trimester and 3 months postpartum. Results showed predictors of PPD in mothers to be low household income, high prenatal depressive symptoms, and postnatally, low social support and higher number of stressful life events. Fathers had similar predictors, including low household income, high prenatal depressive symptoms, and postnatally low social support and smoking. Compared with non-depressed couples, factors that predicted PPD in both mothers and fathers in couples included low income, high prenatal depressive symptoms in mothers and low prenatal social support reported by fathers.
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