The relationship between maternal depression and adverse infant health outcomes in Zambia: a cross-sectional feasibility study

Child: Care, Health and Development
R Ndokera, C MacArthur

Abstract

Post-partum depression affects many new mothers. In the developing world, there may be an association between post-partum depression and adverse mortality-related infant health. Such associations have been found in South Asia; however, findings are inconsistent in Africa. This study aimed to investigate the feasibility of such research in rural Zambia, and investigate associations between maternal depression and adverse infant health outcomes. A cross-sectional study was undertaken in a rural district of Zambia. Consecutive women with infants between 2 and 12 months were recruited from under five clinics in three locations. Depression was assessed using the Self-reporting Questionnaire. Outcomes of infant size (actual weight and length, and as ≤ 5th percentile) and infant health (serious illness, diarrhoeal episodes, incomplete vaccination) were obtained. Relative risk, step-wise logistic regression and linear regression were used to analyse the data. Two hundred seventy-eight of 286 women agreed to take part (97.1%). The proportion with a high risk of depression was 9.7%. Adverse infant health outcomes were all proportionally greater in infants of 'depressed' mothers, and the associations with adjusted mean difference in weigh...Continue Reading

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