Comments on “Prenatal Depression and Infant Health: The Importance of Inadequately Measured, Unmeasured and Unknown Confounds”

• Published in: Indian journal of psychological medicine Vol. 40; no. 6; pp. 592 - 594
• Main Author: Verma, Tarun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi, India SAGE Publications 01.11.2018; Wolters Kluwer India Pvt. Ltd; Sage Publications, New Delhi India; Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd; SAGE Publishing
• Subjects: Letters to Editor; Mental depression; Womens health; Mexico
• ISSN: 0253-7176; 0975-1564
• DOI: 10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_306_18

Authors have cited the literature[3],[4] indicating the importance of studying depressive symptoms among pregnant women in poor income families. [...]the choice of this sample characteristic is justified, hence raising doubts about the sample's inadequacy can be avoided in light of the aims and scope of the original study. What are the chances that these significant factors would overcome the inadequacy of the Coburn et al.'s study? [...]authors have taken other demographic variables too like mother's age and her educational level, presence or absence of a romantic partner, other children at home and being born in Mexico. The original article does mention the need for including such variables in their 'Limitations and Future Directions' section. [...]the participant mothers were not clinically diagnosed depressed patients (or the relevant information was not provided).