@article{ref1,
title="Parental use of antidepressant medication and family type in the risk for incident psychiatric morbidity in offspring",
journal="Journal of epidemiology and community health",
year="2013",
author="Joutsenniemi, Kaisla and Moustgaard, Heta and Martikainen, Pekka",
volume="67",
number="8",
pages="703-705",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Maternal depression increases the risk for psychiatric morbidity in offspring but the effects of paternal depression and family type are less studied. METHODS: We assessed the effects of parental antidepressant use on offspring psychiatric morbidity in various family settings. RESULTS: Our register-based study followed 132637 children for incident psychiatric morbidity in 1998-2003. The highest risk for psychiatric morbidity was in children living with both parents on antidepressants or with a lone parent on antidepressants. We found little variation in the effects according to parental or offspring gender. CONCLUSIONS: Parental depression as measured by antidepressant use, and single parenthood pose a risk for psychiatric morbidity in offspring.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0143-005X",
doi="10.1136/jech-2012-201718",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2012-201718"
}