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Paternal postnatal depression in Japan: an investigation of correlated factors including relationship with a partner

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, May 2015
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Title
Paternal postnatal depression in Japan: an investigation of correlated factors including relationship with a partner
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, May 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12884-015-0552-x
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Akiko Nishimura, Yuichi Fujita, Mayumi Katsuta, Aya Ishihara, Kazutomo Ohashi

Abstract

A negative effect of paternal depression on child development has been revealed in several previous studies. The aims of this study were to examine the prevalence and relevant factors associated with paternal postnatal depression at four months postpartum, including age, part-time work or unemployment, experience of visiting a medical institution due to a mental health problem, economic anxiety, unexpected pregnancy, pregnancy with infertility treatment, first child, partner's depression, and lower marital relationship satisfaction. We distributed 2032 self-report questionnaires to couples (one mother and one father) with a 4-month old infant between January and April 2013. Data from 807 couples (39.7 %) were analyzed. Depressive symptoms were measured with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). In order to clarify the factors related with paternal depression, a logistic regression analysis was conducted. One hundred and ten fathers (13.6 %) and 83 mothers (10.3 %) were depressed. According to the logistic regression analysis, paternal depression was positively associated with partner's depression (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 1.91, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 1.05-3.47), and negatively with marital relationship satisfaction (AOR 0.83, 95 % CI 0.77-0.89). History of infertility treatment (AOR 2.37, 95 % CI 1.32-4.24), experience of visiting a medical institution due to a mental health problem (AOR 4.56, 95 % CI 2.06-10.08), and economic anxiety (AOR 2.15, 95 % CI 1.34-3.45) were also correlated with paternal depression. This study showed that the prevalence of paternal depression at four months after childbirth was 13.6 % in Japan. The presence of partner's depression and low marital relationship satisfaction were significantly correlated with paternal postpartum depression, suggesting that health professionals need to pay attention to the mental status of both fathers and mothers, and to their relationship.

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Unknown 189 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 30 16%
Student > Bachelor 24 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 11%
Researcher 15 8%
Student > Postgraduate 9 5%
Other 31 16%
Unknown 59 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 40 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 38 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 24 13%
Social Sciences 8 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 2%
Other 11 6%
Unknown 65 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 April 2022.
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