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This paper presents longitudinal data on maternal depression amongst a sample of women who were seen during their first pregnancies and at 4, 14, 27, 42 and 82 months after the birth. Rates of depression were found to be similar at each of these stages of motherhood. Depression at 82 months was more likely to occur amongst those who had been depressed at prior stages of the study. Depression at 82 months was associated cross-sectionally with a number of social and familial circumstances including social class, housing, marital relationship and child behaviour at home and at school.
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Coleman, E.Z., Ghodsian, M. & Wolkind, S.N. Depression in mothers 6 years after the birth of a first child. Soc Psychiatry 21, 76–82 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00578746
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