Open AccessSeverity, Chronicity, and Timing of Maternal Depression and Risk for Adolescent Offspring Diagnoses in a Community Sample
Author(s) -
Constance Hammen,
Patricia A. Brennan
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
archives of general psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3636
pISSN - 0003-990X
DOI - 10.1001/archpsyc.60.3.253
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , confounding , offspring , psychiatry , cohort , medicine , major depressive disorder , psychology , clinical psychology , pediatrics , pregnancy , cognition , genetics , biology , economics , macroeconomics
Risk for depression and other disorders is known to be high among children of depressed mothers, but little is known about the parameters of severity, chronicity, and timing of depression and its effects on children. The study addresses these issues, disaggregating their overlapping effects.
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