Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · Licensed source edition
Postpartum Mental Health Care Use Among Parents During Simultaneous Parental Leave
Originally published 2024-10-14 · JAMA Network Open
American Medical Association (AMA) · DOI 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.38755 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Studies simultaneous parental leave and mental-health-care use, showing why greater treatment uptake must not automatically be described as worse mental health.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
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Could leave taken together give parents room to seek needed care?
Studies simultaneous parental leave and mental-health-care use, showing why greater treatment uptake must not automatically be described as worse mental health.
Study context
207,283 parental dyads in Swedish registers following singleton births in 2014–2015.
Age / stage: Parents during the first postpartum year.
Read with three questions
- How were simultaneous leave timing and duration measured?
- Which maternal and paternal treatment outcomes were associated with leave use?
- Why might more treatment reflect access rather than a harmful effect of leave?
Keep the limits in view
Leave use was not randomized, and some paternal findings did not persist in propensity-score analyses; utilization is neither a direct symptom measure nor proof of treatment benefit.
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Helena Honkaniemi; Sol P Juárez (2024). Postpartum Mental Health Care Use Among Parents During Simultaneous Parental Leave JAMA Network Open. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.38755
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