Night shift work before and during pregnancy in relation to depression and anxiety in adolescent and young adult offspring.

ABSTRACT: We investigated the relationship between maternal history of nightshift work before and shift work during pregnancy and offspring risk of depression and anxiety, among mothers participating in the Nurses Health Study II and in their offspring enrolled in the Growing Up Today Study 2 between 2004 and 2013. Case definitions were based on offspring self-reports of physician/clinician-diagnosed depression and/or anxiety, regular antidepressant use and depressive symptoms assessed using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Multivariable-adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated using generalized estimating equation models. We found no associations between maternal nightshift work before pregnancy or during pregnancy and offspring mental healt

SUBMITTER: Strohmaier S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6548754 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature