IS THERE AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MATERNAL POSTNATAL DEPRESSION AND FAILURE TO THRIVE?
Heycock EG, O’Brien LM, Hanna M, Cox JL. School of Postgraduate Medicine, North Staffordshire Hospital/University of Keele, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England.. Aims: To report preliminary findings from a community based study designed to determine any association between maternal postnatal depression (PND) and Failure to Thrive (FTT) in their infants. Methods: All infants are routinely weighed as part of their general health surveillance. Children under 2 years of age, born at full term, were recruited into the FTT (index) group if their weight fell across 2 centile lines or beneath the 2nd centile on standardised growth charts. Control infants were recruited at a rate of 3:1 and were matched to the index infant for sex, age, ordinal position and postal sector. All mothers of recruited children completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). Mothers who scored 9 were offered a structured Clinical Interview Schedule (CIS). ICD-10 diagnoses of depressive disorder were der
