PMID: 18431837Apr 24, 2008Paper

Childhood overweight and maternal depressive symptoms

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Pamela J SurkanKaren E Peterson

Abstract

Given the rising global prevalence of overweight associated with the nutrition transition, the objective of this study was to evaluate whether maternal depressive symptoms are related to overweight in infants aged 6-24 months. Participants in this cross-sectional study included 589 mother-child dyads from low-income urban communities in Teresina, Piauí, northeast Brazil. While adjusting for sociodemographic and biological determinants of child growth, the study assessed the relationship between mothers' depressive symptom scores, measured with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale and child weight-for-height using multivariable logistic regression. Child overweight was calculated with the World Health Organization growth curves using 85th and 95th percentile cutoffs of the weight-for-height z-score (WHZ). Children of mothers with high depressive symptoms had 1.7 and 2.3 higher odds of being over WHZ cutoffs for the 85th and 95th percentile, respectively. Child age between 18 and 24 months (compared with children 6-12 months old), being low birth weight, not receiving the Family Health Programme and breastfeeding between 6 and 12 months (compared with <6 months) were other factors inversely related to at least on...Continue Reading

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