@article{ref1,
title="Depression and thoughts of death among disadvantaged mothers: risk factors and impact on maternal and child health",
journal="Archives of suicide research",
year="2010",
author="Crandall, Marie and Sridharan, Lakshmi and Schermer, Carol",
volume="14",
number="3",
pages="248-260",
abstract="Our hypothesess were that modifiable societal risk factors would contribute to depression and thoughts of death (DTD) and that DTD would affect maternal and infant well-being. Retrospective database analysis with bivariate and multivariate statistics utilizing 3 years of data from the prospective Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Eight hundred and eighty mothers (18%) were clinically depressed; of these, 286 (33%) reported thoughts of death. DTD were significantly associated with family violence and alcohol use; a combination of DTD with family violence or maternal alcohol use markedly increased the risk of infant hospitalization (p-value <0.001). The association of DTD with problems of violence, substance abuse, and health outcomes underscores the complex relationships among these risk factors. Routine screening for these issues should be implemented.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1381-1118",
doi="10.1080/13811118.2010.494143",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2010.494143"
}