Pediatric providers may be in an ideal
position to identify symptoms of maternal depression,
particularly among maternal smokers. If our results indeed
reflect a chronic, multifactorial problem that presents in a
cyclical pattern, any one condition or consequence is likely
to exacerbate anotherConsidering that nearly 60 % of mothers in
our sample were identified reporting significant depressive
symptoms despite our exclusion of women with diagnosed
mood disorder, there may be an extremely high rate of
undetected and untreated depression among low-income,
minority smokers