SynthesisArchives of women's mental health2021
The impact of maternal prenatal mental health disorders on stillbirth and infant mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cognitive performance in offspring of parents with severe mental illness: a meta-analysis.Psychological medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Maternal Prenatal Stress and the Offspring Gut Microbiome: A Cross-Species Systematic Review.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Methods and Practice for Integrating Maternal, Fetal, and Child Health Outcomes, and Family Spillover Effects into Cost-Utility Analyses.PharmacoEconomics · 2024Pooled it
- Antenatal depression and adverse birth outcomes among pregnant women living with HIV in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.Journal of affective disorders · 2023Trial
- Perinatal Depression and Infant Mortality.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Physiological Mechanisms in Pregnancy and Their Relevance to the Clinical Management of Perinatal Mental Illness.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Environmental Chemicals and Maternal Depression During and After Pregnancy: a Scoping Review.Current environmental health reports · 2026Article
- Health inequalities among people with disabilities: an umbrella review and evidence synthesis.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Review
- Infant emergency department visits, readmission, and mortality by maternal anxiety disorder during pregnancy occurring with and without other mental health conditions: a retrospective cohort study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Mental health and body mass index in early pregnancy: a secondary analysis of three randomised controlled trials.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Maternity Care Access and Infant Mortality.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Parental Mental Disorders and Offspring Mortality up to Middle Age.JAMA psychiatry · 2025Article
- Associations between text communication engagement and maternal-neonatal outcomes in the Mobile WACh NEO Trial.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- A new perspective on the causal pathway between maternal mental health and neonatal adversity.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- Risk of adverse infant outcomes associated with maternal mental health and substance use disorders.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- Association of Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations and postpartum mental health care utilization.Health services research · 2025Article
- Toxic effects of chronic occupational mercury vapor exposure on female workers of childbearing age.Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) · 2025Article
- County-Level Structural Vulnerabilities in Maternal Health and Geographic Variation in Infant Mortality.The Journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Psychotropic prescribing patterns during pregnancy in two South African mental health clinics.Journal of the colleges of medicine of South Africa · 2025Article
- Maternal and pregnancy factors contributing to the association between area deprivation and infant mortality in England: a retrospective cohort study.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2024Article
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Abstract
Evidence about the association between maternal mental health disorders and stillbirth and infant mortality is limited and conflicting. We aimed to examine whether maternal prenatal mental health disorders are associated with stillbirth and/or infant mortality. MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, and Scopus were searched for studies examining the association of any maternal prenatal (occurring before or during pregnancy) mental health disorder(s) and stillbirth or infant mortality. A random-effects meta-analysis was used to calculate pooled odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The between-study heterogeneity was quantified using the I
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