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We assessed the impact of a 6-week extension of parental leave in Denmark on maternal mental health.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We linked individual-level data from Danish national registries on maternal sociodemographic characteristics and psychiatric diagnoses. A regression discontinuity design was applied to study the increase in parental leave duration after 26 March 1984. We included women who had given birth between 1 January 1981 and 31 December 1987. Our outcome was a first psychiatric diagnosis following the child\u2019s birth, ascertained as the first day of inpatient hospital admission for any psychiatric disorder. We presented cumulative incidences for the 30-year follow-up period and reported absolute risk differences between women eligible for the reform vs not, in 5-year intervals.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In all, 291\u200a152 women were followed up until 2017, death, emigration or date of first psychiatric diagnosis. The median follow-up time was 29.99\u2009years, corresponding to 10\u200a277\u200a547 person-years at risk. The cumulative incidence of psychiatric diagnoses at 30\u2009years of follow-up was 59.5 (95% CI: 57.4 to 61.6) per 1000 women in the ineligible group and 57.5 (95% CI: 55.6 to 59.4) in the eligible group. Eligible women took on average 32.85 additional days of parental leave (95% CI: 29.20 to 36.49) and had a lower probability of having a psychiatric diagnosis within 5\u2009years [risk difference (RD): 2.4 fewer diagnoses per 1000 women, 95% CI: 1.5 to 3.2] and up to 20\u2009years after the birth (RD: 2.3, 95% CI: 0.4 to 4.2). In subgroup analyses, the risk reduction was concentrated among low-educated, low-income and single women.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Longer parental leave may confer mental health benefits to women, in particular to those from disadvantaged backgrounds.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/ije\/dyac198","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,30]],"date-time":"2022-09-30T15:35:54Z","timestamp":1664552154000},"page":"993-1002","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["The effect on women\u2019s health of extending parental leave: a quasi-experimental registry-based cohort study"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"52","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5073-7279","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Emilie","family":"Courtin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Public 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