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Perinatal depression not linked to child problems when results adjusted for familial confounders
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30203
Subject(s) - confounding , depression (economics) , medicine , psychology , demography , psychiatry , pediatrics , economics , sociology , macroeconomics
Maternal prenatal and postpartum depression have been linked to child behavior problems, but these problems are more likely due to familial factors, researchers have found. This was the first large‐scale longitudinal study to adjust results for confounding using a sibling model.