Health Care Utilisation in the First Year of Life Among Infants of Mothers With Perinatal Depression or Anxiety

Background: Limited information is available on associations between maternal depression and anxiety and infant health care utilisation. Methods: We analysed data from 24 263 infants born between 1998 and 2007 who themselves and their mothers were continuously enrolled for the infant's first year in Kaiser Permanente Northwest. We used maternal depression and anxiety diagnoses during pregnancy and postpartum to categorise infants into two...