TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Parental use of antidepressant medication and family type in the risk for incident psychiatric morbidity in offspring
JO  - Journal of epidemiology and community health
A1  - Joutsenniemi, Kaisla
A1  - Moustgaard, Heta
A1  - Martikainen, Pekka
SP  - 703
EP  - 705
VL  - 67
IS  - 8
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0143-005X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2012-201718
ID  - ref1
ER  -