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Perinatal Assessment of Paternal Affectivity (PAPA). First validation in Italian samples.
No full textPerinatal Assessment of Paternal Affectivity (PAPA). First validation in Italian samples.
Baldoni F.1, Matthey S.2, Agostini F.1, Schimmenti A.3, Caretti V.4
1Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy
2University of Sydney, Australia
3 Kore University of Enna, Italy
4 LUMSA University, Rome, Italy
Background: The assessment of affective disorders in fathers during the perinatal period represents a difficult challenge for clinicians. The Perinatal Assessment of Paternal Affectivity (PAPA) (Baldoni et al., 2016) is a new self-report questionnaire for the screening of affective symptoms in fathers during the perinatal period. It has been developed in recent research on perinatal affective disorders and assesses different dimensions of paternal affective problems: anxiety, depression, hostility, relational and couple difficulties, somatic complaints, dangerous behaviors and addictions (smoke, alcohol, drugs, gambling, internet, physical or sexual compulsive and at risk behavior). The PAPA has a simple structure and is very fast and simple to complete. It also considers some ethnic and socio-cultural influences.
Aim: This study presents the incoming preliminary data of a multicentric validation study of the PAPA that involved many Italian public services (AUSL Romagna, Cagliari, 15 Alta Padovana, Torino, Foggia, Roma1).
Methods: Different samples of fathers and mothers (500 couples, 1000 parents) were involved in the study. All participants, at the VII-VIII months prenatal and at 3 months postnatal, completed the following questionnaires: PAPA (prenatal and postnatal versions), CES-D, SCL-90-R, Analogical Symptom Assessment (ASA), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS), EPDS. Statistical analyses were performed using IBM SPSS Statistics (Version 23).
Results: Preliminary findings concerning the prenatal period showed significant association between PAPA total scores (P = .05) and single scale scores with many scores on CES-D, SCL-90-R, ASA, PSS and DAS.
Discussion: Preliminary data of this Italian validation study confirm the PAPA as a useful tool for the screening of paternal affective disorders in the perinatal period. However, the PAPA doesn’t permit an accurate diagnosis but provides a simple and practical guide for detecting fathers at high-risk of perinatal affective alteration. In these cases, a more in-depth diagnostic assessment and a possible treatment are required.
Reference: Baldoni, F., Matthey, S, Agostini, F., Schimmenti, A., & Caretti, V. (2016). Perinatal Assessment of Paternal Affectivity (PAPA): preliminary report on a new screening tool, Infant Mental Health Journal, 37 (Suppl. 1), 132-133
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Maternal perinatal depression: heterogeneity and multiple trajectories across time
Full text linkIntroduction: Perinatal depression has been widely studied since many years, with lot of evidence about its prevalence, risk factors and consequences for child development (Goodman, 2019). Compared to the past scientific literature characterizing past years (2000-2010) and emphasizing the existence of “a perinatal depression”, recent empirical evidence recognizes the existence of “many perinatal depressions” and suggests the need to better identify the heterogeneity of depressive symptoms (Baron et al., 2017; Boekhorst et al., 2019). The study aims, therefore, at confirming the existence of multiple trajectories in the perinatal period.
Methods: A literature search was realized among the main databases in the last 4 years (2015-2019), using the keywords: perinatal depression, perinatal depressive symptoms, mothers, women, trajectories, course, longitudinal. No specific systematic or meta-analyses reviews were conducted. Relevant articles were selected, based on the content, sample size and statistical analyses. Besides, specific data on perinatal depression trajectories from the authors’ studies were selected for the aims of this study.
Results: Ten selected articles showed the possibility to recognize at least 3 different trajectories (women always depressed; women depressed at onset, but then recovering; women getting depressed only later) of depression across the postnatal period, up to 24 months. Main results from the authors’ studies also confirmed multiple trajectories for depressive symptoms in a time range of 12 postpartum months, both for mothers of full-term and preterm babies.
Conclusions: Consistent findings emerge on the existence of different and evident trajectoris regarding the course of depressive symptoms in mothers, at least across the first postnatal year. Despite this, a huge part of the literature on perinatal psychopathology still neglects this evidence, with the risk of underestimating the impact of the chronicity of depression on infant outcomes
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