In Reply Laurent and Bianchi are concerned that our recent study¹ on paternal antenatal and postnatal depression symptoms did not control for prepregnancy depression. Mother and partner participants were recruited to the study during pregnancy.² As such, it was not possible to carry out standardized assessment of prepregnancy depression symptoms. However, participants were asked to report whether they had ever been diagnosed as having depression by a physician. This variable was included in the models for paternal antenatal depression symptoms (PADS) and paternal postnatal depression symptoms (PPDS). Prepregnancy depression was significantly associated with PPDS (increased odd ratio, of 2.84; 95% CI, 1.69-4.78) and all other odds ratios were controlled for this variable.

在回答Laurent和Bianchi时，我们对父亲的产前和产后抑郁症状的最新研究[ ^1]无法控制孕前抑郁。母亲和伴侣的参与者在怀孕期间被招募到研究中。²因此，不可能对孕前抑郁症状进行标准化评估。但是，要求参与者报告是否曾经被医生诊断为患有抑郁症。该变量包含在父亲产前抑郁症状（PADS）和父亲产后抑郁症状（PPDS）的模型中。孕前抑郁与PPDS显着相关（奇数比增加，为2.84； 95％CI为1.69-4.78），并且对该变量控制了所有其他比值比。