- Title
- The role of trauma and partner support in perinatal depression and parenting stress: An Australian pregnancy cohort study
- Creator
- Galbally, Megan; Watson, Stuart; Boyce, Philip; Lewis, Andrew
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/191282
- Identifier
- vital:17779
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764019838307
- Identifier
- ISSN:0020-7640
- Abstract
- Background: Improving our understanding of the relationship between maternal depression and parenting stress is likely to lie in the range of additional factors that are associated with vulnerability to depression and also to parenting stress. Objectives: To examine the role of trauma and partner support, in understanding the relationship between perinatal depression and parenting stress. Methods: This study utilises data from 246 women in a pregnancy cohort study that followed women from early pregnancy until their infant was 12 months. Included were both women with a diagnosis of depression and those without depression. The measures included Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, Social Support Effectiveness Questionnaire and the Parenting Stress Index. Results: We found women with depression were more likely to report a history of childhood trauma. Depressive symptoms were positively associated with parenting stress while partner support was negatively associated with parenting stress. The protective role of partner support for parenting distress was observed in those with no history of childhood abuse and low depressive symptoms, but not in those with a trauma history and high depressive symptoms. Conclusions: These findings highlight the importance of early trauma in understanding the protective role of support on the relationship between parenting and depression. These findings can inform future studies and the refinement of future interventions aimed at both perinatal depression and parenting.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Relation
- International Journal of Social Psychiatry Vol. 65, no. 3 (2019), p. 225-234
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright Sage
- Subject
- Child abuse & neglect; Childhood; Clinical interviews; Cohort analysis; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual; History; Infants; Maternal depression; Medical diagnosis; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Parental stress; Parents & parenting; Partners; Perinatal; Postpartum depression; Pregnancy; Pregnant women; Psychological distress; Psychological trauma; Questionnaires; Social support; Stress; Symptoms; Teenage parents; Trauma; Understanding; Vulnerability; Women; 3202 Clinical sciences; 5203 Clinical and health psychology
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This study is supported through the 2012 National Priority Funding Round of Beyond blue in a 3-year research grant (ID 519240) and a 2015 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) project grant for 5 years (APP1106823). Financial support has also been obtained from the Academic Research and Development Grants, Mercy Health and Centre for Mental Health and Well-Being, Deakin University.
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