Children change a lot faster than adults do, and kids are remarkably resilient. |
If a mother is sick, it's going to impact the entire family. (The study) showed beautifully how children's symptoms went down in a really rapid time frame, and that's encouraging. As a profession, we need to be aggressive about recognizing, diagnosing and treating depression, and we have to be more cognizant of the impact on extended family. |
It's a multi-center trial taking place around the country and they really tried to take a variety of patients who would be representative of the real world, and that is so important. It's real-world data with big numbers, which are so hard to get. There's a tremendous amount of value in the study. |
We know that depression affects not just the person who is suffering, but the whole family. It was so encouraging that if the women got better, the kids got better. Who doesn't want a well child? |