ArticleJournal of affective disorders2016
Comorbid trajectories of postpartum depression and PTSD among mothers with childhood trauma history: Course, predictors, processes and child adjustment.
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Writing to Reduce Stress in Expectant Moms: The RESet Study
Who cites it
43 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of clinical psychological guidance for perinatal mental health.BMC psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- The impact of childhood trauma on psychological interventions for depression during pregnancy and postpartum: a systematic review.Archives of women's mental health · 2021Pooled it
- Substance Abusing Mothers with a History of Childhood Abuse and Their Children's Depressive Symptoms: The Efficacy of Family Therapy.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2020Trial
- Improving Maternal Representations in High-Risk Mothers: A Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Mom Power Parenting Intervention.Child psychiatry and human development · 2018Trial
- War-Related Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms During the First Two Postpartum Years: The Moderating Role of Childhood Adversity.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2026Article
- Influences of adverse childhood experiences and weekly pregnancy stress on postpartum mental health symptoms: a machine learning examination.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Article
- Structured psychological nursing and postpartum psychological outcomes in primiparous women: a retrospective temporal cohort study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The lived experiences of childhood trauma in war: has post-traumatic growth occurred?European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Improving perinatal mood and anxiety disorders through integrated infant mental health care in obstetrics: evidence from a program evaluation study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Race-Related Stress as a Driver of Postpartum Depression Among a Sample of Black Mothers.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Exploring Bridge Symptoms in Postpartum Women With Comorbid Postpartum Depression and Postpartum Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.Depression and anxiety · 2025Article
- Postpartum post-traumatic stress symptoms and their association with mood and parenting stress.American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM · 2024Article
- Risk psychosocial factors associated with postpartum depression trajectories from birth to six months.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- From pregnancy to the postpartum: Unraveling the complexities of symptom profiles among trauma-exposed women.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Peripartum dissociation, sense of control, postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder and emotional adjustment to motherhood in adult survivors of childhood maltreatment.Archives of women's mental health · 2024Article
- Promising Effect of the Children in Disaster: Evaluation and Recovery Intervention on Trauma Symptoms and Quality of Life for Children and Adolescents: A Controlled Study.Psychiatry investigation · 2024Article
- Unique Characteristics of Women and Infants Moderate the Association between Depression and Mother-Infant Interaction.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Genetic liability to posttraumatic stress disorder and its association with postpartum depression.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- The Maternal Disintegrative Responses Scale (MDRS): Development and initial validation.Journal of clinical psychology · 2023Article
- Maternal childhood trauma is associated with offspring body size during the first year of life.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundBoth postpartum depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been identified as unique risk factors for poor maternal psychopathology. Little is known, however, regarding the longitudinal processes of co-occurring depression and PTSD among mothers with childhood adversity. The present study addressed this research gap by examining co-occurring postpartum depression and PTSD trajectories among mothers with childhood trauma history.
methods177 mothers with childhood trauma history reported depression and PTSD symptoms at 4, 6, 12, 15 and 18 months postpartum, as well as individual (shame, posttraumatic cognitions, dissociation) and contextual (social support, childhood and postpartum trauma experiences) factors.
resultsGrowth mixture modeling (GMM) identified three comorbid change patterns: The Resilient group (64%) showed the lowest levels of depression and PTSD that remained stable over time; the Vulnerable group (23%) displayed moderately high levels of comorbid depression and PTSD; and the Chronic High-Risk group (14%) showed the highest level of comorbid depression and PTSD. Further, a path model revealed that postpartum dissociation, negative posttraumatic cognitions, shame, as well as social support, and childhood and postpartum trauma experiences differentiated membership in the Chronic High-Risk and Vulnerable. Finally, we found that children of mothers in the Vulnerable group were reported as having more externalizing and total problem behaviors. LIMITATIONS: Generalizability is limited, given this is a sample of mothers with childhood trauma history and demographic risk.
conclusionsThe results highlight the strong comorbidity of postpartum depression and PTSD among mothers with childhood trauma history, and also emphasize its aversive impact on the offspring.
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