Relationship between Maternal Mood Disorders and Dietary Intake of 3-Year-Olds

Table 1

Characteristics of mothers, both with and without mood disorders (K-6 score ≥10), and their children three years after childbirth.

		Without mood disorders	With mood disorders	value^a
		(n = 559)	(n = 361)
		(mean ± SE)	(mean ± SE)
Maternal age	Year	39.6 ± 0.2	39.3 ± 0.2	0.182
Maternal height	cm	159.3 ± 0.2	159.0 ± 0.3	0.339
Maternal weight	kg	53.0 ± 0.3	52.2 ± 0.4	0.117
Maternal BMI		20.9 ± 0.1	20.6 ± 0.1	0.229
Child’s age	y	3.0 ± 0.0	3.0 ± 0.0	0.419
Child’s birth height	cm	49.3 ± 0.1	49.0 ± 0.1	0.198
Child’s birth weight	g	3001.6 ± 17.8	2977.8 ± 23.8	0.415
		(%)	(%)
Marital status
Married		99.1	99.1	0.911
Not married		0.9	0.9
Postpartum depression^c
Yes		10.9	26.0	<0.001
No		89.1	74.0
Under continuous treatment^d
Yes		23.5	28.2	0.114
No		76.5	71.8
Employment status
Full-time worker		14.0	12.0	0.053
Part-time worker		13.4	19.3
Not working		72.6	68.6
Currently smoking
Yes		2.3	2.5	0.879
No		97.7	97.5
Drinking habit^e
Yes		29.6	30.4	0.793
No		70.5	69.6
Annual income (yen)
Less than 4 million		5.0	8.0	0.297
4 to 8 million		31.3	31.6
Over 8 million		55.1	51.8
Missing		8.6	8.6
Maternal education
Training school, high school, or less		6.1	8.3	0.573
Graduated college		30.0	29.6
Graduated university		60.1	57.9
Missing		4.8	4.2
Experience of giving birth
Yes		33.8	36.6	0.392
Sex of the child
Male		53.5	50.7	0.407

^a value was calculated as Student’s t-test or Chi-squared test. ^b value was calculated as Fisher’s exact test. ^cEPDS score ≥9. ^dThere are ongoing diseases under treatment. ^eMore than once a week.