scholarly journals Trajectories of perinatal depressive symptoms in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna C. Gustafsson ◽  
Anna S. Young ◽  
Olivia Doyle ◽  
Bonnie J. Nagel ◽  
Kristen Mackiewicz Seghete ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bineti Sidi Vitta ◽  
Laurie A Nommsen‐Rivers ◽  
Roberta J Cohen ◽  
Caroline J Chantry ◽  
Kathryn G Dewey

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (11) ◽  
pp. 2753-2765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji‐Wei Sun ◽  
Dan‐Feng Cao ◽  
Jia‐Huan Li ◽  
Xuan Zhang ◽  
Ying Wang ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Aliyah Dosani ◽  
Harshmeet Arora ◽  
Sahil Mazmudar

Women in low- and middle-income countries have high rates of perinatal depression. As smartphones become increasingly accessible around the world, there is an opportunity to explore innovative mHealth tools for the prevention, screening, and management of perinatal depression. We completed a scoping review of the literature pertaining to the use of mobile phone technologies for perinatal depression in low-and middle-income countries. PubMed CINHAL, and Google Scholar databases were searched, generating 423 results. 12 articles met our inclusion criteria. Two of the 12 articles reviewed mobile phone applications. The remaining 9 articles were study protocols or descriptive/intervention studies. Our results reveal that minimal literature is currently available on the use of mobile health for perinatal depression in low- and middle-income countries. We found four articles that present the results of an intervention that were delivered through mobile phones for the treatment of perinatal depressive symptoms and an additional qualitative study describing the perceptions of mothers receiving cognitive behavioral therapy via telephones. These studies demonstrated that depressive symptoms improved after the interventions. There is potential to improve the quality of mHealth interventions, specifically mobile phone applications for perinatal depressive symptoms and depression, through meaningful collaborative work between healthcare professionals and application developers.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 431-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramya Srinivasan ◽  
Rebecca M Pearson ◽  
Sonia Johnson ◽  
Gemma Lewis ◽  
Glyn Lewis

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 860-875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Hazell Raine ◽  
Philip Boyce ◽  
Karen Thorpe

Maternal mental health problems in the perinatal period incur significant human and economic costs attributable to adverse child outcomes. In response, governments invest in screening for perinatal depressive symptoms. Mother–infant relationship quality (MIRQ) is a key mechanism linking maternal perinatal mental health to child outcomes. Perinatal depressive symptoms are typically transient while personality style, including interpersonal sensitivity, is a more stable construct. We have demonstrated that antenatal interpersonal sensitivity independently predicted MIRQ at 12 months postpartum. Building on our previous work, the objective of this study was to examine the associations of antenatal interpersonal sensitivity and depressive symptoms with MIRQ 1 year postnatal. A sample of 73 women attending routine antenatal care, 61 (84%) from ethnically diverse populations, were studied across the perinatal period. At ⩽26 weeks, gestation interpersonal sensitivity and depressive symptoms were measured. At 12 months, postnatal mental health and MIRQ was assessed in 35 of the mother–infant dyads. We found no significant statistical association between antenatal interpersonal sensitivity and depressive symptoms with postnatal MIRQ. Interpersonal sensitivity ( r = –.24) showed weak association with MIRQ. Depressive symptom scores were not associated ( r =–.01). Maternal sensitivity assessment (MIRQ) using the CARE-Index identified low mean scores signifying low levels of maternal sensitivity (potential range 0–14; mean score = 6.3). We cautiously suggest that the findings raise questions about the presentation and assessment of perinatal mental health status among ethnically diverse populations and scoping of parenting support needs within this population.


2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 218-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hudson Santos ◽  
Eiko I. Fried ◽  
Josephine Asafu-Adjei ◽  
R. Jeanne Ruiz

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