What is it about?
Postpartum depression (PPD) is one of common symptoms among parents in the world. We reviewed effects of maternal PPD on children's development such as growth, neuromotor, language and cognitive development.
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Why is it important?
We focused on the timing and scales of measuring exposure (PPD) and outcome (Physical Development, Neuromotor Development, Language Development and Cognitive Development) in each outcome categories, because the timing of assessment is very important to examine the association of them. In addition, we mentioned the association between PPD occurring within 6 months postpartum and child development before/after 1 year old.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure for me. Through this work, I found a new aspect to read articles and integrate them.
Sona-Sanae Aoyagi
Daigaku Byoin Iryo Joho Network
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This page is a summary of: Does maternal postpartum depression affect children's developmental outcomes?, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research, July 2019, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jog.14064.
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