ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2017
Unintended Pregnancy, Induced Abortion, and Mental Health.
Review in Current psychiatry reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Post-abortion needs-based education via the WeChat platform to lessen fear and encourage effective contraception: a post-abortion care service intervention-controlled trial.BMC women's health · 2024Trial
- Association of induced abortion with bipolar disorder and major depression from the UK Biobank: a propensity score matching and weighting analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- The interplay of risk and protective factors for psychosocial outcome in women after induced abortion - an interview study from Germany.BMC women's health · 2026Article
- CATSPERε extracellular domains are essential for sperm calcium channel assembly and activity modulation.Science advances · 2026Article
- Understanding women's physical and emotional experiences following medication abortion in china: a qualitative study using the writing express method.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- CATSPERε extracellular domains are essential for sperm calcium channel assembly and activity modulation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Unplanned pregnancy and perinatal depression: secondary exploratory analyses from a racially and ethnically diverse, low-income sample of birthing people in the United States.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Suicide deaths among reproductive-aged women in the US post-Dobbs: a national time-series analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Clinical Psychology in the Post-Dobbs Era: Navigating Clinical Practice, Research, and Advocacy in a Changing Sexual- and Reproductive-Health Landscape.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- The impact of abortion restrictions on American mental health.Science advances · 2024Article
- CaAnimal cells and systems · 2024Review
- Global disease burden attributed to unsafe sex in 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Immediate postpartum family planning utilization and its associated factors among postpartum women in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in global women's health · 2023Review
- Designing a Needs-Oriented Psychological Intervention for Chinese Women Undergoing an Abortion.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Comparison of Depression and Anxiety Scores in Multi/Nulliparous Women who have Undergone Dilatation and Curettage.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2022Article
- Article
- HIV risk and pre-exposure prophylaxis interest among women seeking post-abortion care in Kenya: a cross-sectional study.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2021Article
- Definition and Multiple Factors of Recurrent Spontaneous Abortion.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2021Article
- Women with Schizophrenia over the Life Span: Health Promotion, Treatment and Outcomes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
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2 authors.
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Abstract
purpose of reviewThe early medical literature on mental health outcomes following abortion is fraught with methodological flaws that can improperly influence clinical practice. Our goal is to review the current medical literature on depression and other mental health outcomes for women obtaining abortions. RECENT
findingsThe Turnaway Study prospectively enrolled 956 women seeking abortion in the USA and followed their mental health outcomes for 5 years. The control group was comprised of women denied abortions based on gestational age limits, thereby circumventing the major methodological flaw that had plagued earlier studies on the topic. Rates of depression are not significantly different between women obtaining abortion and those denied abortion. Rates of anxiety are initially higher in women denied abortion care. Counseling on decision-making for women with unintended pregnancies should reflect these findings.
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