Dearing Eric, Taylor Beck A, McCartney Kathleen
Judge Baker Children's Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2004 Aug;94(8):1372-7. doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.8.1372.
We examined within-person associations between changes in family income and women's depressive symptoms during the first 3 years after childbirth.
Data were analyzed for 1351 women (mean baseline age = 28.13 years) who participated in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care. Nineteen percent of these women belonged to an ethnic minority, and 35% were poor at some time during the study.
Changes in income and poverty status were significantly associated with changes in depressive symptoms. Effects were greatest for chronically poor women and for women who perceived fewer costs associated with their employment.
Given that women head most poor households in the United States, our findings indicate that reductions in poverty would have mental health benefits for women and families.
我们研究了产后头3年内家庭收入变化与女性抑郁症状之间的个体内关联。
对1351名参与美国国立儿童健康与人类发展研究所早期儿童保育研究的女性(平均基线年龄 = 28.13岁)的数据进行了分析。这些女性中有19%属于少数族裔,35%在研究期间的某个时候处于贫困状态。
收入和贫困状况的变化与抑郁症状的变化显著相关。对长期贫困的女性以及认为其就业相关成本较低的女性影响最大。
鉴于在美国大多数贫困家庭以女性为户主,我们的研究结果表明,减少贫困将对女性和家庭的心理健康有益。