What is it about?
This study is about the predictors of depressive or anxious feelings during pregnancy among prospective fathers. Specifically it investigates how paternal adverse childhood experiences (scores on the ACE scale) are related to anxious and depressive feelings during pregnancy.
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Why is it important?
Fathers with higher ACE scores reported more pregnancy-related anxiety than those with lower scores throughout pregnancy, except at 36 weeks, and also experienced more depressive feelings.
Perspectives
It's illuminating that prospective fathers recollected adverse childhood experiences are related to their anxious and depressive feelings during pregnancy.
Professor Lars Smith
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: PROSPECTIVE FATHERS’ ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, PREGNANCY-RELATED ANXIETY, AND DEPRESSION DURING PREGNANCY, Infant Mental Health Journal Infancy and Early Childhood, December 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21485.
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