Cohort Profile: Perinatal depression and child socioemotional development ; the Bachpan cohort study from rural Pakistan

What is it about?

• This perinatal depression cohort is a prospective pregnancy and birth cohort designed to investigate the effects of depression on cognitive and socio-emotional development among children • Between October 2014 and February 2016, we recruited 1154 pregnant women from a rural sub- district of Pakistan • Longitudinal follow-up includes mother-child dyad assessments at 3rd, 6th, 12th 24th and 36th month postnatal. All these follow up are community-based at the household level. Of 1021 live-born children, all are eligible for follow-up and 940 have been followed up at 12 months postnatal. • Data include longitudinal and repeated measures of maternal psychosocial measures and child growth, cognitive and socioemotional measures. Data also include a sub-sample mother-child dyad DNA and inflammatory biomarker.

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