Journal article
Depression and anger in fathers of unsettled infants: A community cohort study
F Cook, R Giallo, Z Petrovic, A Coe, M Seymour, W Cann, H Hiscock
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health | WILEY | Published : 2017
DOI: 10.1111/jpc.13311
Abstract
Aim: To examine the relationship between unsettled infant behaviour and fathers’ depressive symptoms, cognitions surrounding infant sleep (anger, doubt), and personal sleep, in a community cohort. Methods: Data were collected from 102 fathers of healthy infants at 4 weeks, 4 months and 6 months of age. Measures included father report of infant sleep and crying problems, depressive symptoms, cognitions about infant sleep and own sleep quality and quantity. Data were analysed using adjusted regression models. Results: Sleep problems at 4 months of age were associated with increased depressive symptoms (adjusted mean difference 2.64 (1.27–4.00)), doubt (adjusted mean difference 1.82 (0.40–3.25)..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the Maternal and Child Health nurses and coordinators in the Yarra, Wyndham, Moonee Valley and Brimbank City Council's for their assistance recruiting families. The research was funded by the Victorian Government Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, the Scobie and Claire MacKinnon Trust, and research at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute is supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program. RG was supported by the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Career Development Award. HH was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development award (607351). The design, management, analysis and reporting of the study are entirely independent of the Victorian Government. The funding source had no role in the design of this study, or in the execution, analysis or interpretation of the data, or decision to submit results.