Risk for Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Perceived Stress by Ethnicities in Canada: From Pregnancy Through the Preschool Years ...

• Main Authors: Dharma, Christoffer, Lefebvre, Diana L., Zihang Lu, Lou, Wendy Y. W., Becker, Allan B., Piush J. Mandhane, Turvey, Stuart E., Moraes, Theo J., Azad, Meghan B., Chen, Edith, Elliott, Susan J., Kozyrskyj, Anita L., Sears, Malcolm R., Padmaja Subbarao
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Figshare 2018
• Subjects: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified; FOS: Psychology; 110319 Psychiatry incl. Psychotherapy; FOS: Clinical medicine; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.4186202.v1; https://figshare.com/collections/Risk_for_Maternal_Depressive_Symptoms_and_Perceived_Stress_by_Ethnicities_in_Canada_From_Pregnancy_Through_the_Preschool_Years/4186202/1

Objective:Past cross-sectional studies have reported that mothers from ethnic minorities experience higher levels of prenatal and post-partum psychosocial distress compared with mothers from ethnic majorities. However, no studies have examined how the pattern varies longitudinally in a Canadian population of heterogeneous ethnicity.Methods:We analyzed data from 3,138 mothers participating in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, a longitudinal multi-center study incorporating 10 distinct waves of psychosocial data collection from pregnancy until the index child was aged 5 y. Maternal self-identified ethnicity was grouped as White Caucasian, First Nations, Black, Southeast Asian, East Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern, Hispanic and mixed ethnicity. We performed a multi-level regression to determine whether mothers of specific minority ethnicities were more likely to experience higher levels of distress (i.e. depressive symptoms and perceived stress) compared to white Caucasian ...