Table 1_Association between postnatal mental health-related hospitalisation and child deve

A meta-analysis of 1.53 pooled odds ratio for developmental vulnerability in children whose mothers experienced postnatal mental health-related hospitalization. This systematic review synthesizes evidence from MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Scopus, Embase, and Google Scholar, authored by Demeke Mesfin Belay and published on figshare in 2026. The 411.4 KB document reports associations between maternal hospitalization and child outcomes across five developmental domains and four academic measures.

Use Cases

• Estimating population-level risk for developmental delays based on maternal postnatal hospitalization status.
• Informing early childhood intervention programs by identifying vulnerable developmental domains like social, emotional, and physical skills.
• Evaluating the association between maternal mental health events and specific academic performance measures like spelling and writing.
• Assessing publication bias and heterogeneity in existing clinical literature on this topic via trim and fill analysis.

Strengths

• Includes a weighted random-effects meta-analysis and trim and fill analysis for publication bias.
• Quality of included studies was assessed using the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) tool.
• Reports specific pooled odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals for multiple developmental and academic outcomes.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Substantial heterogeneity among the included studies is noted, which cautions interpretation of the results.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Systematic review and meta-analysis of literature from MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Scopus, Embase, Google Scholar, and reference lists.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 06:19:31; freshness should be verified.