Cumulative exposure to maternal psychological distress in the prenatal and postnatal periods and atopic dermatitis in children: findings from the TMM BirThree Cohort Study

Table 2 Association between maternal psychological distress and the development of AD in children (n = 8377)

	Development of AD/ mother-child pairs	%	Crude RR (95% CI)	Adjusted RR (95% CI)^a
Maternal psychological distress
None in both prenatal and postnatal	560/4464	12.5	1.00	1.00
Prenatal only	170/1198	14.2	1.13 (0.97–1.29)	1.14 (0.98–1.30)
Postnatal only	172/1123	15.3	1.22 (1.06–1.38)	1.23 (1.07–1.39)
Both in prenatal and postnatal	267/1592	16.8	1.34 (1.20–1.47)	1.34 (1.20–1.47)

AD atopic dermatitis, BMI body mass index, RR relative risk, CI confidence interval
^aAdjusted for age at delivery, educational attainment, smoking status in pregnancy, maternal history of AD, paternal history of AD, parity, maternal BMI, and child sex

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