ArticlePediatrics2020
Trajectories of Maternal Postpartum Depressive Symptoms.
Article in Pediatrics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
79 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Cost Effectiveness of Interventions for Perinatal Anxiety and/or Depression: A Systematic Review of Global Evidence.Applied health economics and health policy · 2026Pooled it
- Association of parental prenatal mental health with offspring neurodevelopmental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Postnatal Depression Beyond 12 Months: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of mental health nursing · 2025Pooled it
- Understanding the Domains of Experiences of Black Mothers with Preterm Infants in the United States: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Pooled it
- Exploring Heterogeneity in perinatal depression: a comprehensive review.BMC psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Long-term effects of mHealth consultation services on postpartum depressive symptoms and the mediating role of loneliness: A follow-up study of a randomized controlled trial.Psychological medicine · 2025Trial
- A group psychological intervention for postnatal depression in British mothers of South Asian origin - the ROSHNI-2 RCT.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2025Trial
- Perceptions and Attitudes Regarding Postpartum Depression on Reddit: Inductive Content Analysis.Online journal of public health informatics · 2026Article
- Perinatal predictors of parenting stress trajectories during the first 3 years of parenthood: A Maternal and Child Health Handbook cohort study.JCPP advances · 2026Article
- Advances in Perinatal Depression: A Focus on Screening and Treatment.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Maternal antenatal depression and offspring DNA methylation.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Extended Pregnancy Medicaid During COVID-19 and Enrollment and Health Care Use in the Postpartum Year.The Milbank quarterly · 2026Article
- "Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Environmental Chemicals and Maternal Depression During and After Pregnancy: a Scoping Review.Current environmental health reports · 2026Article
- Article
- Exploring Serious Games in Supporting Postnatal Depression: Narrative Review.Interactive journal of medical research · 2026Review
- Comparison of the ACE-Q and CTES: A study of childhood trauma and perinatal depression.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- The Protective Role of Culture: Familism, Depressive Symptoms, and Stress Among U.S. and Foreign-born Latina Mothers.Journal of latinx psychology · 2025Article
- Engage & connect psychotherapy improves social reward responsivity and reduces postpartum depression.Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research · 2025Article
- Longitudinally investigating patterns of maternal psychological distress in a South African birth cohort.BMC public health · 2025Article
19 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectivesTo identify homogenous depressive symptom trajectories over the postpartum period and the demographic and perinatal factors linked to different trajectories.
methodsMothers (
resultsFour depression trajectories were identified: low-stable (74.7%), characterized by low symptoms at all waves; low-increasing (8.2%), characterized by initially low but increasing symptoms; medium-decreasing (12.6%), characterized by initially moderate but remitting symptoms; and high-persistent (4.5%), characterized by high symptoms at all waves. Compared with the high-persistent group, older mothers (maximum odds ratio [OR] of the 3 comparisons: 1.10; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.05 to 1.15) or those with college education (maximum OR: 2.52; 95% CI: 1.36 to 4.68) were more likely to be in all other symptom groups, and mothers who had a history of mood disorder (minimum OR: 0.07; 95% CI: 0.04 to 0.10) or gestational diabetes mellitus diagnosis (minimum OR: 0.23; 95% CI: 0.08 to 0.68) were less likely to be in other symptom groups. Infertility treatment, multiple births, prepregnancy BMI, gestational hypertension, and infant sex were not differentially associated with depressive symptom trajectories.
conclusionsOne-quarter of mothers in a population-based birth cohort had elevated depressive symptoms in 3 years postpartum. Screening for maternal depression beyond the postpartum period may be warranted, particularly after mood and diabetic disorders.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.