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Table 5 Clinical parenting stress (raw score > 90) by anxiety and depression status in Ghana

From: Mental health related determinants of parenting stress among urban mothers of young children – results from a birth-cohort study in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire

Parenting Stress

Depressed N (%)

Non-depressed N (%)

p

Anxious N (%)

Non-anxious N (%)

p

Entire sample N (%)

3 m

15 (65.2)

75 (30.1)

0.001

9 (64.3)

81 (31.4)

0.01

90 (33.1)

12 m

12 (66.7)

49 (21.1)

<0.001

5 (71.4)

56 (23.1)

0.003

61 (24.4)

24 m

3 (27.3)

27 (14.1)

0.23

2 (28.6)

28 (14.4)

0.30

30 (14.9)

  1. Note: Exposures (depression and anxiety) and outcome (PS score) were assessed and compared at the same time. For example, the comparison of 3 month PS is between depressed vs. non-depressed or anxious vs. non-anxious mothers at 3 months. Bold: p<0.05.
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BMC Psychiatry

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