The Relationship between Perinatal Mental Health Problems and Infant Stress: First Year of Life.

Objective: Investigate cortisol reactivity in newborn children destined to: 1) moms at high-danger of

 

creating PP, and mother with no such hazard, and 2) moms at high-danger of creating

 

Puerperal Psychosis (PP) that stayed well and moms at high-hazard that got unwell.

 

Techniques: Saliva cortisol from 71 babies (42 cases and 29 controls) destined to mother at high and

 

generally safe of creating PP was gathered preceding and 20 minutes after everyday practice

 

immunisations at about two months and a year. The case bunch was additionally partitioned by

 

maternal psychological wellness status, newborn children destined to moms that introduced clinically huge

 

side effects among birth and a month baby blues were designated into the unwell gathering, while

 

babies destined to moms that stayed well were distributed into the well gathering. Baby cortisol

 

reactivity was estimated as the contrast between cortisol levels when schedule

 

immunisations, and contrasts between bunches were broke down utilizing the Mann-Whitney tests

 

what's more, confounders were controlled for in straight relapse models.

 

Author(s): Itzia Perez Morales

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