Early postpartum psychosocial profiles predict parenting maladjustment at 1 year (opens in new tab)

Parenting difficulties during the first postpartum year are a public health concern. Early screening mainly uses depressive-symptom measures such as the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), which capture concurrent symptoms but may miss broader psychosocial vulnerability linked to later parenting outcomes. We hypothesised that early multidimensional profiling using the Comprehensive Scale for Parenting Resilience and Adaptation (CPRA) would predict later parenting maladjustment. Data ...