DECRYPTION – Taking paternity leave can slightly reduce this risk.
In the year following childbirth, nearly one in six women will experience a depressive episode related to this birth, called postpartum depression. If this pathology is gradually emerging from the shadows, the mental health of fathers over this same period remains little studied. One of the reasons no doubt why French researchers have sought to assess the impact of paternity leave granted in France since 2002 on the mental health of the parental couple. Their findings were published Wednesday in the journal The Lancet Public Health.
Postpartum (or postnatal) depression is a psychiatric pathology, diagnosed when certain symptoms are present on a daily basis for at least fifteen days: difficulty functioning (going to work, caring for children, concentrating, etc.), sadness (in mothers in particular), irritability or even anger (in men). The underlying mechanisms are the same for both sexes: this period of great change that is the arrival…
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