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“Depression in pregnancy may affect children's mental health”, study finds
“Depression in pregnancy may affect children's mental health”, study finds
This is a problem very
recurrent actually in our society. We like human being have a stressful life
style every day. The women, above all, have many responsibilities in relation to
labor and familiar areas.
Now then, the pregnancy
is a complicated stage for the women. According to the shown information of a new
research, if they are depressed during this period, their children may be more
a likely to succumb to depression when they are teenager (by the age of 18).
Why does this happen? A study
from Bristol University mentions that levels of the stress hormone cortisol –which
are raised in depression-, may affect the development of the foetus in the
womb.
For example, mothers
that developed schizophrenia during the war passed on an increased risk to
their children.
This way, the development
of people´s mental health begins before birth.
The study is published
in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Psychiatry. The principal
conductor called Rebeca Pearson, researcher at Bristol University´s school of
social community medicine, together with others colleagues, studied data on the
mental health of more than 4.500 parents and their adolescent children.
The final findings
suggest that treating depression in pregnancy may be most effective as much for
the health of the mother and the foetus, irrespective of background.
It´d be important that
the sociology applied public politics for the well-being and health of the
women in pregnancy.
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