Open AccessThe positive impact of maternal depression intervention on children's emotional and behavioral symptoms in a low-resource setting
Author(s) -
Elis Viviane Hoffmann,
Cristiane S. Duarte,
Camila T. Matsuzaka,
Ana Carolina Coelho Milani,
Victor Fossaluza,
Andréa F. Mello,
Marcelo Feijó de Mello
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
brazilian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1809-452X
pISSN - 1516-4446
DOI - 10.47626/1516-4446-2022-2498
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , depression (economics) , psychosocial , psychological intervention , medicine , mental health , depressive symptoms , clinical psychology , psychiatry , anxiety , economics , macroeconomics
Children of depressed mothers are at risk of developing mental health problems. We sought to determine whether treatment for maternal depression delivered by community health workers (CHW) would decrease behavioral/emotional symptoms in their child. An intervention treating maternal depressive symptoms in a low-middle-income country can have a high global impact.