Depressão pós-parto e estado nutricional infantil no segundo mês de vida

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The chances of illness and mortality are higher in children with nutritional status (NS) inadequate in the first months of life. Risk factors for EN inadequate maternal include the psychosocial aspects, such as anxiety, postpartum depression (PPD), the lack of social support. However, few studies on the role of these factors in determining child EN and its controversial results. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between postpartum depression and inadequate nutritional status in the second month of life. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study with 466 children at two months of life (mean = 65 days, SD = 0.5) derived from basic health units in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, conducted between June 2005 and December 2009. To make the outcome, mean weight-for- age z scores were expressed as compared with information from new reference WHO (2006) for children under five years. Were classified as inadequate nutritional status of children with z scores below -2, underweight-for-age, and children with z scores above +2, excess weight- for-age. Information regarding the DPP were obtained by applying the version in Portuguese of the EPDS (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale). Analyses of associations between the DPP and the outcomes were verified via multinomial logistic regression models, estimated by odds ratios (OR) and its unadjusted and adjusted confidence intervals of 95% (IC 95). RESULTS: The sample was -0.22 z-scores for the average weight for age, 4.51% (n = 21) had lower weight-for-age and 1.72% (n = 8) of overweight -for-age. The prevalence of depression was 27.6%. In crude analyzes, children of depressed mothers had 2.45 more likely (OR = 2.45, 95% CI = 1.01 to 5.93, p = 0.050) of low weight-for-age and 0.38 chance of excess weight-for-age (OR = 0.38, 95% CI = 0.04 to 3.17, p = 0.38), than children of non-depressed mothers, but this association presented level of significance greater than 5%. After adjustment for birth weight, environmental conditions, possession of utensils, prematurity, maternal age and maternal education the association between depression and nutritional status was not statistically significant (OR = 2.39, 95% CI = 0.74 to 7, 71, p-value> 0.05). CONCLUSION: The DPP was not associated with child nutritional status.