Open AccessMaternal psychological distress and child weight at 24 months: investigating indirect effects through breastfeeding in the All Our Families cohort
Author(s) -
Matthew Shay,
Lianne TomfohrMadsen,
Suzanne Tough
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
canadian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.64
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1920-7476
pISSN - 0008-4263
DOI - 10.17269/s41997-020-00312-7
Subject(s) - breastfeeding , overweight , medicine , pregnancy , anxiety , cohort , cohort study , obstetrics , distress , birth weight , prospective cohort study , depression (economics) , pediatrics , obesity , psychiatry , clinical psychology , macroeconomics , biology , economics , genetics
Maternal psychological distress in pregnancy has been associated with both breastfeeding duration and child weight at 24 months; however, the potential that breastfeeding duration partially mediates the risk of maternal mental health problems during pregnancy on child weight classification has not been examined. The current study investigated this proposed relationship.