Mother’s Depression a Risk Factor in Childhood Asthma Symptoms

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Read this garbage. They are professing that if a mother is depressed,

their child is more likely to have asthma. How does that work?

Wouldn't a more logical explanation be that there is something in the home

environment that causes both symptoms of asthma and depression? s

Hopkins strikes again! Psycho moms cause illness in children

Mother’s Depression a Risk Factor in Childhood Asthma Symptoms

Newswise — Maternal depression can worsen asthma symptoms in their

children, according to research from s Hopkins Children’s Center

published

online in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology.

Analyzing data from interviews with 262 mothers of African-American

children with asthma — a population disproportionately affected by this

inflammatory airway disorder — the Hopkins investigators found that children

whose

mothers had more depressive symptoms had more frequent asthma symptoms

during the six-months of the study. Conversely, children whose mothers reported

fewer depressive symptoms had less frequent asthma symptoms.

Researchers tracked ups and downs in maternal depression as related to the

frequency of asthma symptoms among children.

“Even though our research was not set up to measure just how much a mom’s

depression increased the frequency of her child’s [asthma] symptoms, a

clear pattern emerged in which the latter followed the earlier,†says senior

investigator Riekert, Ph.D., a pediatric psychologist and

co-director of the s Hopkins Adherence Research Center.