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Objective: To examine incidence, trends, and correlates of parental depression in primary care from 0 to 12 years of child age.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: Primary care records from more than 350 general practices in The Health Improvement Network database from 1993 to 2007.

Participants: A total of 86 957 mother, father, and child triads identified in The Health Improvement Network database by linking mothers and babies and then identifying an adult household man. Depressed parents were identified using Read code entries for depression and antidepressant prescriptions.

Main Exposures: Child age, parental age at the birth, and area deprivation quintile.

Main Outcome Measures: Incidence rates for maternal and paternal episodes of depression.

Results: Overall incidences of depression from the birth of the child up to age 12 years were 7.53 per 100 personyears for mothers and 2.69 per 100 …