ArticleArchives of women's mental health2017
Different patterns of depressive symptoms during pregnancy.
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- Sleep Quality and Depressive Symptoms Among Pregnant Women in the Third Trimester: A Cross-Sectional Latent Profile and Network Analysis.International journal of women's health · 2026Article
- Factor structure and longitudinal measurement invariance of Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale during the whole perinatal period: a multicenter cohort study in China.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Factors influencing the intention of women with perinatal depression and their spouses to seek professional psychological help: a cross-sectional latent profile analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- A qualitative study exploring the perinatal experiences of social stress among first- and second-generation immigrant parents in Quebec, Canada.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- Prevalence and factors associated with antenatal depressive symptoms across trimesters: a study of 110,584 pregnant women covered by a mobile app-based screening programme in Shenzhen, China.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- Prevalence and Risk Factors of Prenatal and Postnatal Depressive Symptoms in Babol Pregnancy Mental Health Registry: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of fertility & sterility · 2024Article
- Maternal Sleeping Problems Before and After Childbirth - A Systematic Review.International journal of women's health · 2024Review
- Longitudinal Changes of Depressive Symptoms in Sedentary Women Who Exercised During Pregnancy.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Using the WHO Self-Reporting Questionnaire-20 (SRQ-20) to Detect Symptoms of Common Mental Disorders among Pregnant Women in Vietnam: a Validation Study.International journal of women's health · 2023Article
- Association of morningness-eveningness with psychiatric symptoms among pregnant women.Chronobiology international · 2022Article
- Parity and Psychosocial Risk Factors Increase the Risk of Depression During Pregnancy Among Recent Immigrant Women in Canada.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2022Article
- The prevalence and risk factors of depression in prenatal and postnatal women in China with the outbreak of Corona Virus Disease 2019.Journal of affective disorders · 2021Article
- Body Acceptance by Pregnant Women and Their Attitudes toward Pregnancy and Maternity as Predictors of Prenatal Depression.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Effectiveness of a guided ACT-based self-help resilience training for depressive symptoms during pregnancy: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial embedded in a prospective cohort.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Article
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- Psychometric aspects of the Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale: data from the HAPPY study.Archives of women's mental health · 2020Article
- Implications of the clinical gestational diagnosis of ZIKV infection in the manifestation of symptoms of postpartum depression: a case-control study.BMC psychiatry · 2019Article
- Inflammation, depression and cardiovascular disease in women: the role of the immune system across critical reproductive events.Therapeutic advances in cardiovascular diseaseReview
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Abstract
Recently, the US Preventive Services Task Force has advocated to screen pregnant and postpartum women for depression. However, we questioned the meaning of a single elevated depression score: does it represent just one episode of depression or do these symptoms persist throughout the entire pregnancy? This study assessed depressive symptoms at each trimester in a cohort of 1813 pregnant women and evaluated whether women with different patterns of depressive symptoms showed other characteristics. Depending on the trimester, elevated depression scores were prevalent in 10-15% of the pregnant women. Up to 4% reported persistent symptoms of depression throughout pregnancy. Different patterns of depressive symptoms were observed, for which persistent symptoms were related to other characteristics than incidentally elevated symptoms. Besides a previous history of mental health problems as best overall predictor, incidentally elevated depression scores were related to major life events. Furthermore, persistently depressive symptoms were related to unplanned pregnancy and multiparity. An EDS assessment at 12 weeks of gestation including three additional items (history of mental health problems, unplanned pregnancy and multiparity) enabled us to identify 83% of the women with persistent depressive symptoms. A depression screening strategy in pregnant women should take into account the potential chronicity of depressive symptoms by repeated assessments in order to offer an intervention to the most vulnerable women.
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