Sentences with phrase «maternal mood disturbances»

Despite these limitations, the present study allowed us to unveil complex pathways between mild maternal mood disturbances, family - level relationships, and child development in the first months of the child's life.

Infant cry in the context of maternal mood disturbances can also be recognized as an opportunity to improve mother's mood, which could in turn support healthy early development.

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There are several well conducted naturalistic studies of the impact of PND on the mother - child relationship, and the architecture of parenting disturbances in this context is now well understood; similarly, the evidence on the consequences of PND for child development is detailed and robust.5 There have also been several randomized controlled trials of the impact of treatment on PND.7, 8 However, the treatment trials have almost all had limited follow up and have principally been concerned with the impact on maternal mood rather than on the quality of the mother - child relationship and child development outcome.

Dysfunctional parenting has been assumed as an important risk factor in the development of psychological disturbances in adulthood and several studies have reported a significant correlation between maternal PPD and altered cognitive / affective child development.16 Only a complex, clinical and multidisciplinary approach could deeply support the transition to parenthood and study results could be considered only a guidance in the assessment of psychopathologic disturbances.Furthermore, poor attention has been paid to the mood disturbance of fathers and to the association between depression and anxiety.

It has been reported that maternal PPD is a predictor of paternal one since the first is higher during the three months postpartum.8 Based on the existing knowledge of maternal PPD, literature suggests that also paternal PPD could be related with hormonal changes regarding alteration of testosterone, estrogen, vasopressin, prolactin and cortisol levels.10 In addition to mood disturbances, high parenting distress levels could also be considered a important factor compromising the parenting competence and the daily child care.17 Parenting stress is a construct related to the parent role and influenced by expectations and perceptions of child characteristics, parent characteristics and parental - infant interaction quality.