Emotion and Behaviour Disorders Towards Children of Maternal Depression in Psychiatry Polyclinic at RSUP Sanglah

Abstract

Background: Depression was a psychiatric disorder that often occurred towards mothers were related to the psychiatric problems for their children. It little was known regarding the effects of maternal depression on the emotional and behavioral disorders to children. Aims: The present study compared the incidence of emotional and behavioral disorders towards the children and maternal depression and children of mothers were not depressed. Methods: It was observational analytic research that was designed a cross-sectional. There were 74 mothers who came to the psychiatry clinic at RSUP Sanglah from December 2010 to February 2011 and met the inclusion criteria were included in the present research. They were screened by Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). There were 37 maternal depression and 37 non-maternal depression. The mother characteristics were analyzed excluding the confounding variables. In order to assess the differences percentages of emotional and behavioral disorders among children of maternal depression and children of non-maternal depression was conducted by Chi-square test for categorical variables, and assess the depression degree, a long depression, compliance, and comorbidities. The differences were considered significant if P <0.05