Social adversity in pregnancy and trajectories of women's depressive symptoms: A longitudinal study.

CONCLUSIONS: Experiencing adversity during pregnancy predicts subsequent patterns of maternal depression over an extended period of women's reproductive life course. It is not clear whether women's experiences of adversity during pregnancy were causally associated with subsequent depression or whether there are other explanations of the observed association. PMID: 28711396 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28711396?dopt=Abstract

Source: Women Birth - July 12, 2017 Category: Midwifery Authors: Kingsbury AM, Plotnikova M, Clavarino A, Mamun A, Najman JM Tags: Women Birth Source Type: research