A new study has found that young parents who have less education and care for more than one child are more likely to have persistent symptoms of depression that linger six months after their newborn is discharged from a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
“Using a validated screening tool, we found that 40 percent of parents in our analyses were positive for depression at the time their newborn was discharged from the NICU,” said Karen Fratantoni, M.D., M.P.H., a pediatrician with the...
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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/05/06/parents-depression-can-linger-for-six-months-after-newborn-discharged-from-nicu/135143.html
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