ArticleCultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology2020
Postpartum depressive symptoms in low-income Latinas: Cultural and contextual contributors.
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- Depression among Latina women in the United States from pregnancy to early postpartum: longitudinal examination of risk factors.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
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- Scoping review of non-pharmacological or self-management interventions for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders tested with Hispanic and Latina women.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- 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
- Risk Factors for Postpartum Depression and Severe Distress among Mothers of Very Preterm Infants at NICU Discharge.American journal of perinatology · 2024Article
- Everyday Discrimination and Trajectories of Transdiagnostic Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety among Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Stigma and health · 2024Article
- Prenatal depressive symptoms in Latinas: a qualitative investigation.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024Article
- A dynamic perspective on depressive symptoms during the first year postpartum.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
- Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms Among Mexican American Women: Exploring Multilevel Sociocultural Moderators.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Article
- Within-dyad bidirectional relations among maternal depressive symptoms and child behavior problems from infancy through preschool.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Mental health status of pregnant women during COVID-19 in healthcare centers of Iran: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2023Article
- How demographics and concerns about the Trump administration relate to prenatal mental health among Latina women.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Which roads lead to depression in Latinas? A network analysis of prenatal depressive symptoms, discrimination, acculturative stress, and low birth weight.Research in nursing & health · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveUsing a conceptual model of postpartum depression risk in Latinas including both contextual and cultural stressors, we tested contributions to depressive symptom levels and trajectories over the course of 1 year following birth in a community sample of Latinas.
methodA multisite sample of low-income U.S.-born and foreign-born Latinas (n = 537; M age = 25.70) was interviewed on many topics including measures of stress and maternal health at 1, 6, and 12 months postpartum. Nested multilevel growth curve models were implemented to test associations of contextual stressors (poverty, domestic violence) with trajectories of depressive symptoms, adjusting for confounds. This model was compared to 1 that added cultural stress variables (everyday discrimination, foreign-born status, language preference, age at immigration) measured 1-month postpartum.
resultsThe best fitting model provided evidence for the independent effects of cultural and contextual stressors. Discrimination (β = .13 SE = .02, p = < .001) and domestic violence (β = .39 SE = .09, p = < .001) predicted trajectories with higher levels of depressive symptoms 1 month postpartum, but not linear change in symptoms over the year.
conclusionsThe present study provides evidence that discrimination, a cultural factor, and domestic violence, a contextual factor, each predict higher levels of early postpartum depressive symptoms. Interventions addressing discrimination and maternal safety are recommended. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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