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JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
Volume 62, Issue 9, Pages 1047-1049Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13507
Keywords
Major depression; poverty; socioeconomic status
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- NIH
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The study found that developmental risk factors for depression are closely related to poverty, including low birth weight, premature birth, being small gestational age, maternal education, and other factors.
In this issue, we read with interest Research Review: Developmental origins of depression - a systematic review and meta-analysis (Su et al., 2021). Su et al. (2021) conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis examining prenatal, perinatal and postnatal exposures and their association with depression in offspring. Su et al. (2021) evaluated twenty-eight potential exposures and determined that 12 were associated with increased risk of depression in the offspring. These risk factors included low birth weight, premature birth, being small gestational age, maternal education, socioeconomic status, parental age, parental smoking, maternal stress, maternal anxiety and prenatal depression (Su et al., 2021). Strikingly, each of these developmental risk factors for depression in the offspring is known to be associated with poverty.
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