父母抑郁影响孩子的表现
时间：2016-02-06 00:38:14
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Children whose parents are diagnosed with depression are more likely to perform poorly in school, a new study said Wednesday.
Researchers at Drexel University looked at data on more than 1.1 million children born from 1984 to 1994 in Sweden and linked their school performance at the end of the northern European nation's
compulsory1 education at about age 16 with parents' depression diagnoses from inpatient and outpatient records.
They found children whose mothers had been diagnosed with depression are likely to achieve grades that are 4.5 percentage points lower than peers whose mothers had not been diagnosed with depression.
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For children whose fathers were diagnosed with depression, the difference is a negative four percentage points, according to the study published in the U.S. journal JAMA
Psychiatry3.
Put into other terms, when compared with a student who achieved a 90 percent, a student whose mother or father had been diagnosed with depression would be more likely to achieve a score in the 85 to 86 percent range.
The study also showed that
maternal4 depression appeared to have a larger negative effect on girls than boys. Girls scored 5.1 percentage points lower than their peers on final grades at 16 years old, while boys only scored 3.4 percentage points lower, it said.
"Our study -- as well as many others -- supports that both maternal and
paternal5 depression may independently and negatively influence child development," senior author Brian Lee, associate professor at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health, said in a statement.
"There are many notable sex differences in depression, but, rather than comparing maternal
versus6 paternal depression, we should recognize that parental depression can have
adverse7 consequences not just for the parents but also for their children," Lee said.
In an accompanying editorial, Myrna Weissman of Columbia University said the findings highlighted the importance of treating parents who suffered from depression.
"The study ... concludes that 'diagnoses of parental depression may have a far-reaching effect on child development.' We extend that conclusion to state that effective treatment of the diagnosed parents may also have far-reaching effects," Weissman wrote.
"Access to treatments that are vigorous,
substantiated8 and evidence-based is a public health opportunity for improving the lives of both
depressed9 parents and their children."
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