(Tuesday, 15 March HealthDay News)-successful treatment of major depression in mothers leads also to improved mental health for their children, according to a new study.
Children of parents with major depression are at increased risk of diagnosed with psychiatric disorders.
This study included 80 women with depression and their children aged 7 to 17. The mothers in a US National Institute of mental health study designed to patients with depression, the answers were not enrolled for the first, second or even third treatment attempts.
The researchers found that the children of women with early remission improvement showed both mother - and child reported symptoms of psychiatric disorders and overall psychosocial functioning at home and at school. Children of the depression in remission go longer taken mothers have improvement in several tests, the symptom, but not in work.
Children of mothers with Depression over two years in the treatment did not respond showed no improvement of the symptoms of psychiatric disorders and had an increase in outward-facing symptoms such as behavior störendes B..
March 15 the results appear online in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
"This study shows that [depression] remission, can even after several months of treatment, have large positive effects not only for patients but also for their children," Explorer Myrna Weissman, in a press release said journal.
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--Robert PreidtSOURCE: American Journal of Psychiatry, press release, March 15, 2011Copyright © 2011 HealthDay. All rights reserved.
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