SynthesisSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2021
Worldwide prevalence of suicide attempt in pregnant and postpartum women: a meta-analysis of observational studies.
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- Prevalence of and risk factors for suicidal ideation among perinatal women with HIV infection: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Suicide Attempts during Pregnancy and Postpartum: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Maternal and child health journal · 2024Pooled it
- Insomnia During the Perinatal Period and its Association with Maternal and Infant Psychopathology: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Pooled it
- Maternal Suicide Ideation and Behaviour During Pregnancy and the First Postpartum Year: A Systematic Review of Psychological and Psychosocial Risk Factors.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Self‑harm ideation in perinatal women: Prevalence across gestational and postpartum windows and general risk and protective factors.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Sex difference in parental risk of suicide attempt during and after pregnancy in Sweden.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Exploring Black Maternal Suicidal Ideation: A Pilot Study Exploring Risk and Protective Factors for Perinatal Suicidal Thoughts in Black Women.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Depression and correlates of suicidal thoughts among mothers who are female sex workers in three low- and middle-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional application of the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- A multi-centred pilot randomised controlled trial of learning through play plus culturally adapted cognitive behaviour therapy for treating postnatal depression in Nigerian women.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Women's experiences of attempted suicide in the perinatal period (ASPEN-study) - a qualitative study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Working with suicidal mothers during the perinatal period: a reflexive thematic analysis study with mental health professionals.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Postnatal depression in British mothers of African and Caribbean origin: a randomised controlled trial of learning through play plus culturally adapted cognitive behaviour therapy compared with psychoeducation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Prevalence of depressive disorders among pregnant women in Brazil in 2019: A descriptive cross-sectional study.Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina · 2024Article
- Suicide during pregnancy as a major contributor to maternal suicide among female sex workers in eight low- and middle-income countries: A community knowledge approach investigation.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Initial Impact of Perinatal Loss on Mothers and Their Partners.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Risk Factors Associated With Peripartum Suicide Attempts in Japan.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Suicide and Maternal Mortality.Current psychiatry reports · 2022Review
- Suicide Ideation within and outside the Perinatal Period: An Exploration of Interpersonal Factors from a Maternal Cohort in Rural Pakistan to Improve Intervention Targeting.Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide ResearchArticle
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Abstract
purposePast suicide attempts (SA) are a major contributor to suicide. The prevalence of SA in pregnant and postpartum women varied significantly across studies. Therefore, this meta-analysis was conducted to examine the prevalence of SA and its mediating factors in this population.
methodsRelevant articles published in PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, PsycINFO, Medline complete, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure database (CNKI), Chinese Wanfang and Chongqing VIP database were systematically searched from inception to March 28, 2019. Titles, abstracts and full texts were reviewed independently by three researchers. Studies were included if they reported data on SA prevalence or provided relevant data that enabled the calculation of SA prevalence. Data were extracted by two researchers and checked by one senior researcher. The random-effects model was used to analyze data by the CMA 2.0 and Stata 12.0, with the high degree of statistical heterogeneity present. The primary outcomes were prevalence of SA with 95% CI during pregnancy and during the first-year postpartum.
resultsFourteen studies covering 6,406,245 pregnant and postpartum women were included. The pooled prevalence of SA was 680 per 100,000 (95% confidence interval 0.10-4.69%) during pregnancy and 210 per 100,000 (95% confidence interval 0.01-3.21%) during the first-year postpartum. Data source was significantly associated with prevalence of SA in the subgroup analysis (pregnancy, p < 0.001; the first-year postpartum, p = 0.013).
conclusionThe prevalence of SA is not high in pregnant and postpartum women. Due to the potential loss of life and negative impact of SA on health outcomes, however, careful screening and effective preventive measures should be implemented for this population.
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