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Depressed Mothers Aggravate Accidental Injuries in Children
The findings of the study suggest that proper treatment for depression would improve not only the mothers' health, but the health of young children as well.
During the study, UAB psychologist David Schwebel, Ph.D., director of the UAB Youth Safety Lab, examined the difference between mothers with severe, chronic depression and those who were moderately depressed as their children grew from birth to first grade.
Schwebel said that a likely cause for the link between severe maternal depression and young children's injury risk is that chronically depressed mothers may not appropriately safeguard the physical environments that children engage in.
He said that another cause might be that symptoms of depression include inattention, poor concentration and irritability, which 'might lead to poor or inconsistent supervision and enforcement of safety-related rules.'
For the study, Schwebel and his colleagues used a sample of 1,364 mothers included in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care.
The mothers were periodically asked to list all their children's injuries that had required professional medical treatment.
Also, on four occasions during the study, the mothers were asked to rate how often they experienced symptoms of depression.
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05/16/2008
As a personal from the field of clinical psychology, I fail to understand the relevance of such findings. Are we not expending time, effort, enery and resources into 'statistically' arriving at commomsensical conclusions? Is it not quite obvious that if the primary caretaker is depressed, child care would suffer? What have we then 'found'? What is the clinical significance of such findings?
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