Purpose A growing body of evidence links poor maternal mental health with negative
outcomes on early child development. We examined the effect of antenatal and postnatal …

Background Poor perinatal maternal mental health has been linked with negative outcomes
on early child development; however, the importance of maternal personality has been …

Background There is extensive lack of awareness of maternal mental health and its impact
on child development in low-and middle-income countries (LAMICs). The aim of this …

Objective To examine the effects of prenatal maternal depression, anxiety and stress, and
postnatal depression on infant early neurodevelopment, and the sex dimorphism. Study …

Background Maternal depressive symptoms during and after pregnancy predict poorer child
neurodevelopment. The effects of timing, symptom severity, and additive influences remain …

Background Antenatal depression is associated with adverse social-emotional and
behavioural outcomes during childhood but there has been little investigation of the impact …

Pregnancy frequently is associated with emotional conditions such as anxiety and
depression. Perinatal depression has an incidence of around 12%. Only recently researcher …

Introduction Studies have shown that depression or anxiety occur in 10–20% of pregnant
women. These disorders are often undertreated and may affect mothers and children's …

Purpose Antenatal maternal mental health has been identified as an important determinant
of postpartum depression (PPD). We investigated the occurrence of depression both …

Considerable attention has been focused on women's mental health in the perinatal period
and the subsequent impacts on children. Comparatively, we know much less about maternal …