Father involvement in the first year of life: Associations with maternal mental health and child development outcomes in rural Pakistan.
Child development
Father involvement
LMIC
Maternal depression
Mental health
Journal
Social science & medicine (1982)
ISSN: 1873-5347
Titre abrégé: Soc Sci Med
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8303205
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2019
09 2019
Historique:
received:
09
10
2018
revised:
09
07
2019
accepted:
11
07
2019
pubmed:
10
8
2019
medline:
25
8
2020
entrez:
10
8
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The contribution of fathers to child development and maternal mental health is increasingly acknowledged, although research on this topic outside of high income countries is limited. Using longitudinal data, we characterized father involvement in a rural setting in Pakistan and investigated the link between father involvement in the first year of life and child development and maternal depression. Data come from the Bachpan study, a birth cohort established in the context of a perinatal depression intervention. Father involvement was mother reported at 3 and 12 months postpartum and covered domains such as playing with or soothing the infant. Child outcomes included growth at 3, 6 and 12 months postpartum, socioemotional development at 6 months (Ages and Stages Questionnaire-socioemotional), and developmental milestones at 12 months (Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, BSID)). Maternal depression was assessed at 3, 6, and 12 months postpartum. Roughly 20% of the fathers were temporarily non-resident. Among the rest, most mothers reported that fathers were involved: for example, approximately 40% reported that the father plays with the baby on a typical day. We observed no clear pattern of association between 3-month father involvement and child growth at any time point; however, 12-month father involvement was cross-sectionally inversely associated with child growth. We observed a protective pattern of association between 3-month father involvement and 6-month child socioemotional development. For the BSID domains, while almost all effect estimates suggested a protective association with higher levels of father involvement/father being temporarily non-resident, the magnitude of the estimates was smaller and most 95% confidence intervals crossed the null. Finally, there was a trend toward greater father involvement/being temporary non-resident predicting lower levels of maternal depression. Using longitudinal data, these results provide new evidence about the association between father involvement, and both child development and maternal mental health.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31398510
pii: S0277-9536(19)30413-7
doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112421
pmc: PMC6708722
mid: NIHMS1536778
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
112421Subventions
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : P2C HD050924
Pays : United States
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : R01 HD075875
Pays : United States
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : T32 HD007168
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : U19 MH095687
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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