How women with established obsessive compulsive disorder experience pregnancy and postpartum: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Conclusion: Exacerbation involved an increase in symptom severity as well as distressing changes in symptoms. Strategies are required to identify and support women with eOCD prior to, during and after pregnancy to enable women who experience exacerbation of OCD symptoms to access healthcare. PMID: 32000519 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: J Reprod Infant Psychol Source Type: research