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Paternal Depression can lead to Depression among Offsprings?- Ft. Professor Rosa Alati - Video

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Overview

Can depression be passed on from father to child?

Existing evidence on paternal depression is ambiguous as to whether paternal depression poses a consequent risk of depression in offspring. The findings from a recent systematic review and meta-Analysis published in the journal JAMA Network Open drawing from 71,53,723 father-child dyads from 16 observational studies, reveals that paternal depression was associated with a 42% increased risk of depression in offspring.

The study talks about the importance of addressing maternal and paternal mental health issues using a family-focused approach to reduce the adverse effects on offspring mental health rather than the conventional gender-focused approach limited to maternal prenatal and postnatal mental health issues or individual treatment of the offspring

Depression knowing to be a mood disorder characterized by persistent feeling of sadness, loss of interest can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems.

So to discuss this study in detail, the Medical Dialogues Team interviewed one of the co-authors of this study Professor Rosa Alati.

Professor Alati is currently the Head of the Curtin School of Population Health. She has a keen interest in promoting good mental health to the whole community supporting a number of programs and has an established track record in the epidemiology of substance use and mental health problems.

Reference: Berihun Dachew et al, Paternal Depression and Risk of Depression Among Offspring, JAMA Network Open. DOI:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.29159.

Speakers

Dr. Nandita Mohan

Dr. Nandita Mohan is a practicing pediatric dentist with more than 5 years of clinical work experience. Along with this, she is equally interested in keeping herself up to date about the latest developments in the field of medicine and dentistry which is the driving force for her to be in association with Medical Dialogues. She also has her name attached with many publications; both national and international. She has pursued her BDS from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore and later went to enter her dream specialty (MDS) in the Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry from Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences. Through all the years of experience, her core interest in learning something new has never stopped. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751

Prof. Rosa Alati

Professor Alati is currently the Head of the Curtin School of Population Health. She has a keen interest in promoting good mental health to the whole community supporting a number of programs and has an established track record in the epidemiology of substance use and mental health problems.

Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli

Dr Kamal Kant Kohli-MBBS, DTCD- a chest specialist with more than 30 years of practice and a flair for writing clinical articles, Dr Kamal Kant Kohli joined Medical Dialogues as a Chief Editor of Medical News. Besides writing articles, as an editor, he proofreads and verifies all the medical content published on Medical Dialogues including those coming from journals, studies,medical conferences,guidelines etc. Email: drkohli@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751
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