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The problem
Intervention: Assessment of associations between parental sensitivity, parental depression symptoms, and infant social withdrawal
Who it was tested with: 471 families with mothers screening positive for postnatal depression, infants mean age 3.6 months.
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"We examined these associations cross-sectionally in 471 families in which mothers screened positive for PPD, assessing infant social withdrawal (mean infant age 3.6 months) during interactions with mothers, fathers/co-parents and a stranger." The study used structured observations to measure associations between parental factors and infant behaviour, but lacks a comparison group or temporal ordering needed to establish causality.
Cross-sectional design prevents causal inference. Sample limited to families with maternal postnatal depression screening positivity. No information on study location or representativeness of sample.
Across countries and designs
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