Signs of postnatal depression missed in fathers
Invisibility of depression may force them to cope on their own
13th June 2019
While many people can pick up on signs of postnatal depression in new mothers, the same signs are often missed in fathers, a British study suggests.
There needs to be greater awareness that the mental health disorder can occur in either parent for up to a year after the birth of a child, researchers say.
Professor Viren Swami, a psychologist at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, conducted a study to see if people reacted differently to possible postnatal depression (PND) in men and women.
He recruited 406