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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 8/2011

01-08-2011 | Original Paper

Intimate relationships and childbearing after adolescent depression: a population-based 15 year follow-up study

Authors: U. Jonsson, H. Bohman, A. Hjern, L. von Knorring, A. Paaren, G. Olsson, A.-L. von Knorring

Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Issue 8/2011

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Abstract

Purpose

Adolescent depression is associated with a range of interpersonal adversities. We hypothesized that depressed adolescents are at subsequent increased risk of problems related to intimate relationships and childbearing in adulthood, and used longitudinal data to examine this.

Method

A population-based investigation of depression in 16 to 17 year olds was followed up after 15 years, at around the age of 30 years. Comparisons were made between adolescents with depression (n = 361, 78% females) and non-depressed peers (n = 248, 77% females). Data from both national registers and personal interviews were used.

Results

At follow-up, the former depressed and non-depressed adolescents had become parents to a similar extent. The former depressed females were more likely than the non-depressed females to report abortion, miscarriage, intimate partner violence and sexually transmitted disease. They also reported a higher number of intimate relationships and were more likely to have divorced and to be registered as single mothers. Depressed females with a comorbid disruptive disorder had a particularly poor outcome. In the depressed females without a disruptive disorder, only those who subsequently had recurrent depressions in adulthood were at increased risk of poor outcome. There was no indication that the formerly depressed males were at increased risk of subsequent problems related to intimate relationships.

Conclusion

Females with adolescent depression subsequently have problems related to intimate relationships and childbearing. Disruptive disorders and recurrence of depression appear to be instrumental in this association. Attention should be given to intimate relationship problems and sexual and reproductive health issues in young women with depression.
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Metadata
Title
Intimate relationships and childbearing after adolescent depression: a population-based 15 year follow-up study
Authors
U. Jonsson
H. Bohman
A. Hjern
L. von Knorring
A. Paaren
G. Olsson
A.-L. von Knorring
Publication date
01-08-2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Issue 8/2011
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Electronic ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-010-0238-7

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