The role of parental divorce in the later vulnerability to perinatal depression and early parenting stress

Abstract

Objective: This study will examine the role of childhood experience of parental divorce on later perinatal depression and parenting stress. Methods: 546 women were recruited at less than 20 weeks pregnancy into an ongoing pregnancy cohort study and followed up in pregnancy and the postpartum. Depression at recruitment was measured using the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale repeated in pregnancy and the postpartum. Parenting stress was measured at 12 months postpartum using Parenting Stress Index. Results: This study found 33% of women had experienced parental divorce. While we did not find a statistically significant relationship between ..