ArticleArchives of women's mental health2020
Beyond postpartum depression: posttraumatic stress-depressive response following childbirth.
Article in Archives of women's mental health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05662423 (The Effects of Expressive Writing Following Traumatic Childbirth), which is not on this map. Cited by 49 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Effects of Expressive Writing Following Traumatic Childbirth
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 120 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review of psychosocial screening tools for identification of postpartum mental health status beyond depressive symptoms.Midwifery · 2025Pooled it
- Preventing posttraumatic stress disorder following childbirth: a systematic review and meta-analysis.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2024Pooled it
- Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on maternal psychological status, the couple's relationship and mother-child interaction: a prospective study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Trial
- Perceived connectedness during the perinatal period: Implications for parent and child well-being.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2026Review
- The impact of respectful maternity care on postpartum mental health and sleep quality.Discover mental health · 2026Article
- Disrespectful Maternity Care and Postpartum Depression at 2 Months: A Population-Based Study.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2026Article
- Validation of the City Birth Trauma Scale in a sample of Norwegian mothers.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2026Article
- Access and barriers to treatment and counseling for postpartum women with and without symptoms of (CB-)PTSD within the cross-sectional study INVITE.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- "They are no longer really flashbacks; they are memories": a qualitative study of women's experiences of a brief intervention targeting childbirth-related intrusive memories.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The psychological impact of childbirth: Unscheduled cesarean delivery associates with increased risk for acute stress response.Pregnancy (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Partner military deployment during wartime is associated with maternal depression and impaired maternal-infant attachment: a matched-control study from the Israel-Hamas war.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- Mistreatment and Discrimination during Childbirth, Associations with Symptoms of Childbirth-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Mediating Role of the Subjective Birth Experience: A Quantitative Analysis Within the Prospective Cohort Study RESPECTGeburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde · 2025Article
- Assessing Perinatal Psychiatric Morbidity: Implications for Maternal Mental Health Care in Italy.Clinical psychology in Europe · 2025Article
- A socially prescribed creative play intervention for new parents: investigating post traumatic stress around birth and changes in postnatal depression and reflective function.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Exploring Bridge Symptoms in Postpartum Women With Comorbid Postpartum Depression and Postpartum Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.Depression and anxiety · 2025Article
- Mental disorders in the Postpartum Period in Rio de Janeiro 2021-2023: Nascer no Brasil II Study.Revista de saude publica · 2025Article
- Cognitive biases: potential behavioral marker for future development of postpartum depression and childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing for childbirth-related post-traumatic stress symptoms: effectiveness, duration and completion.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Article
- A nomogram for predicting postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder: a prospective cohort study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Risk psychosocial factors associated with postpartum depression trajectories from birth to six months.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Although depression following childbirth is well recognized, much less is known about comorbid postpartum psychiatric conditions. Some women can endorse posttraumatic stress related to the childbirth experience accompanied by symptoms of depression. The objective of our study was to examine the nature of the comorbidity of symptoms of childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and postpartum depression. We studied a sample of 685 women who were on average 3 months following childbirth and collected data about their mental health pertaining to PTSD, depression, general distress, and childbirth experience. The vast majority of women with elevated childbirth-related PTSD symptoms also endorsed elevated postpartum depression symptoms. Factor analysis revealed that symptoms of childbirth-related PTSD and postpartum depression loaded onto one single factor rather than two factors. Stepwise multi-nominal regression analysis revealed that childbirth stressors, including obstetric complications and peritraumatic distress in birth, predicted the likelihood of developing comorbid childbirth-related PTSD and postpartum depression, but not depression alone. The findings suggest that beyond postpartum depression, postpartum women suffer from a posttraumatic stress-depressive response in the wake of a traumatic childbirth experience. Increasing awareness in routine postpartum care about traumatic childbirth and its associated emotional sequela is warranted.
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