Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
J Perinatol. 2022 Jun;42(6):815-818. doi: 10.1038/s41372-021-01256-7. Epub 2021 Oct 28.
Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) are common, particularly among parents of infants requiring admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), yet remain underdiagnosed and undertreated. Undertreated parental mental health disorders can interfere with healthy infant development, compounding abnormal neurodevelopment and psychosocial development that preterm or ill newborns may already face. Interdisciplinary efforts to increase PMAD awareness, screening, and referral uptake may improve family-infant health and developmental outcomes in high-risk infants requiring NICU admission. Therefore, special emphasis on PMAD screening and treatment in NICU parents aligns with the American Academy of Pediatrics mission and should be a focus in neonatal care and included in education, quality improvement, and outcome-based research initiatives.
围产期情绪和焦虑障碍（PMADs）很常见，尤其是在需要入住新生儿重症监护病房（NICU）的婴儿的父母中，但这些障碍仍未得到充分诊断和治疗。父母心理健康障碍未得到治疗可能会干扰婴儿的健康发育，使早产儿或患病新生儿已经面临的异常神经发育和心理社会发育更加复杂。多学科努力提高 PMAD 意识、筛查和转介率，可能会改善需要入住 NICU 的高危婴儿的家庭-婴儿健康和发育结果。因此，特别强调 NICU 父母的 PMAD 筛查和治疗符合美国儿科学会的使命，应成为新生儿护理的重点，并纳入教育、质量改进和基于结果的研究计划。
