ArticleEthiopian journal of health sciences2017
Are Past Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Associated with Maternal Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in a Sample of Currently Pregnant Women?
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- Pregnancy and birth complications and long-term maternal mental health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2025Pooled it
- Depression, anxiety, PTSD, and OCD after stillbirth: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Pooled it
- Association between maternal pregnancy complications and long-term depressive and anxiety disorders: evidence from the UK millennium cohort study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- A prospective study of antepartum anxiety screening in patients with and without a history of spontaneous preterm birth.AJOG global reports · 2023Article
- Perinatal Grief and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Pregnancy after Perinatal Loss: A Longitudinal Study Protocol.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Mental Health Outcomes in Perinatal Women During the Remission Phase of COVID-19 in China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Determinants and adverse perinatal outcomes of low birth weight newborns delivered in Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia: a cohort study.BMC research notes · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere has been a great deal of concern about the mental health of women whose pregnancies involve miscarriage, termination of a pregnancy (ToP), child death or where a child has been given up for adoption. Despite this concern there has been remarkably little population-based research which has addressed the long-term consequences of pregnancy loss and child death. This study investigated the maternal mental health consequences of women whose pregnancies involve miscarriage, ToP, child death or where a child has been given up for adoption at two different time points, adjusting for socio-demographic characteristics and baseline mental health.
methodsThe Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy is a prospective pre-birth cohort study. Women were recruited early in pregnancy over the period 1981 to 1983 at their first antenatal clinic visit (FCV). Women were interviewed again at the 14-year follow-up. Data from 4403 mothers were analysed using maternal reports of a prior history of giving a child up for adoption, miscarriage, ToP, and neonatal, infant and/or child deaths. Symptoms of maternal anxiety and depression were measured at FCV and the 14-year follow-up using the Delusions-Symptoms-States Inventory. We carried out logistic regression analysis using Stata 13. Odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were used to display the findings.
resultsA prior miscarriage was associated with anxiety (adjusted OR (AOR) = 1.30; 95% CI: 1.10-1.66) and depressive (AOR = 1.70; 95% CI: 1.21-2.39) symptoms at the 14-year follow-up. Having had a neonatal, infant and/or child deaths was associated with symptoms of depression at 14-year follow-up (AOR = 2.12; 95% CI: 1.06-4.25).
conclusionThe period after a child loss which involves a new pregnancy may be associated with relatively good mental health despite the fact that some mothers have experienced previous adverse pregnancy outcomes.
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