ArticleCanadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie2016
A Population-Based Study of Postpartum Mental Health Service Use by Immigrant Women in Ontario, Canada.
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- Hospital admission at the time of a postpartum psychiatric emergency department visit: the influence of the social determinants of health.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2021Article
- Association Between Chronic Medical Conditions and Acute Perinatal Psychiatric Health-Care Encounters Among Migrants: A Population-Based Cohort Study.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2020Article
- Access to Healthcare for Immigrant Children in Canada.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Mental illness after admission to an intensive care unit.Intensive care medicine · 2019Article
- Examining the Social Patterning of Postpartum Depression by Immigration Status in Canada: an Exploratory Review of the Literature.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2019Review
- Use of the emergency department as a first point of contact for mental health care by immigrant youth in Canada: a population-based study.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2018Article
- Immigrant women and women with learning disabilities have complex mental health needs and service use in the perinatal period.Evidence-based mental health · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectivePostpartum mental disorders are twice as common among immigrant women compared to nonimmigrant women in developed countries. Immigrant women may experience barriers to access and use of postpartum mental health services, but little is known about their service use on a population level. We described postpartum mental health service use of immigrant mothers living in Ontario, Canada, comparing to a referent group of mothers who were either born in Canada or had lived in Ontario or another Canadian province since 1985.
methodAmong all women in Ontario, Canada, delivering a live infant from 2008 to 2012 (n = 450,622), we described mental health service use within 1 year postpartum, including mental health physician visits, psychiatric emergency department visits, and psychiatric hospitalization. Adjusted odds ratios (aORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) comparing immigrant women to the referent group were adjusted for maternal age, parity, income, rurality, mental health services in prior 2 years, and maternal and newborn health.
resultsImmigrant women (n = 123,231; 27%) were less likely to use mental health services than women in the referent group (14.1% vs. 21.4%; aOR, 0.59; 95% CI, 0.58 to 0.61), including for physician-based (13.9% vs. 21.1%; aOR, 0.59; 95% CI, 0.58 to 0.61) and emergency department (0.6% vs. 1.3%; aOR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.57 to 0.68) services. Hospitalization risk was lower among immigrants (0.20% vs. 0.33%) but became similar after covariate adjustment (aOR, 0.92; 95% CI, 0.79 to 1.06).
conclusionsUnderuse of postpartum mental health services may be contributing to the high burden of postpartum mental disorders among immigrant women.
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