Trajectories of maternal ante- and postpartum depressive symptoms and their association with child- and mother-related characteristics in a West African birth cohort study

• Dana Barthel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: d.barthel@uke.de

  Affiliations Clinical Research Unit, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6646-4359

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• Levente Kriston,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Daniel Fordjour,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Behavioural Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Yasmin Mohammed,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Behavioural Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Esther Doris Kra-Yao,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Santé, Nutrition et Hygiène, Centre de Recherche pour le Développement, Université Alassane Ouattara, Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire

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• Carine Esther Bony Kotchi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Département de Psychologie, Université Felix Houphouet Boigny de Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

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• Ekissi Jean Koffi Armel,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Département de Psychologie, Université Felix Houphouet Boigny de Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

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• Kirsten Alexandra Eberhardt,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Clinical Research Unit, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Torsten Feldt,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Clinical Research Unit, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Clinic of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

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• Rebecca Hinz,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Clinical Research Unit, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

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• Koffi Mathurin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratoire des Interactions Hôte-Microorganisme, Jean Lorougnon Guede University, Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire

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• Stefanie Schoppen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Clinical Research Unit, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Carola Bindt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carola Bindt, Stephan Ehrhardt

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Stephan Ehrhardt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carola Bindt, Stephan Ehrhardt

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Research Unit, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• on behalf of the International CDS Study Group

  ¶Membership of the International CDS Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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