ReviewWorld journal of psychiatry2021
Risk factors for antenatal depression: A review.
Review in World journal of psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 4 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
59 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 132 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions to Prevent Relapse or Recurrence of Preconception Anxiety and/or Depression in Perinatal Women: A Systematic Review.Maternal and child health journal · 2025Pooled it
- Pooled it
- The role of emotion regulation in perinatal depression and anxiety: a systematic review.BMC psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Epigenome-wide association studies of prenatal maternal mental health and infant epigenetic profiles: a systematic review.Translational psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Maternal mental health as a neglected dimension of primary health care systems responsiveness in low- and middle-income countries: a mixed methods cross-sectional study in Ghana.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Prenatal maternal depression and child behavioural and developmental outcomes: an individual participant data meta-analysis in 76,514 children from the EU Child Cohort Network.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2026Article
- Moderating effect of dysmenorrhea on the association between number of pregnancies and antenatal depression in the third trimester: a cross-sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Observational
- Neurophysiological features in women with antenatal depressive symptoms: a resting-state quantitative electroencephalography study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Adolescent pregnancy and early gestation depressive symptoms in rural Bangladesh: Is there an association?PloS one · 2026Article
- Second-trimester dyadic coping and risk of third-trimester depressive symptoms: development and internal validation of a prediction model.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Mental health and body mass index in early pregnancy: a secondary analysis of three randomised controlled trials.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Perinatal relapse or recurrence rates in women reporting preconception anxiety and/or depression: a longitudinal study using linked data.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- Lumbopelvic dysfunction and depression in pregnant women: a cross-sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Depression and Anxiety During Pregnancy in Mexican Women: Prevalence and Associated Factors in the OBESO Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Positive psychological capital and antenatal depression: the chain-mediating roles of social support and maternal health literacy in rural China.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Prevalence of Depressive Symptoms Amongst Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Clinics at Quaternary Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Unplanned pregnancy and perinatal depression: secondary exploratory analyses from a racially and ethnically diverse, low-income sample of birthing people in the United States.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- An economic evaluation of universal and targeted case-finding strategies for identifying antenatal depression: a model-based analysis comparing common case-finding instruments.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- New perinatal mental health conditions diagnosed during COVID-19: a population-based, retrospective cohort study of birthing people in Ontario.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Observational
- Polysocial risk factors and trajectories of antenatal moderate-to-severe depressive symptoms: a retrospective cohort study in Shenzhen, China.BMC medicine · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Depression is the most prevalent mental disorder in pregnancy, and yet it is less studied than postpartum depression despite the consequences it may have on both the pregnant woman and her offspring. Therefore, it would be important to know which risk factors may favour the appearance of antenatal depression in order to carry out appropriate prevention interventions. The aim of the present review was to identify the main risk factors of antenatal depression. We searched in databases PubMed and PsycINFO for articles published about the factors associated with antenatal depression from January 2010 through December 2020. The literature review identified three main groups of antenatal depression risk factors: sociodemographic, obstetric, and psychological. First, among the sociodemographic variables, the low level of studies and the economic income clearly stood out from the rest. Then, not having planned the pregnancy was the main obstetric variable, and finally, the main psychological risk factors were having a history of psychological disorders and/or depression as well as presenting anxiety, stress, and/or low social support during pregnancy. This review shows that the antenatal depression is affected by multiple factors. Most can be identified at the beginning of the pregnancy, and some are risk factors potentially modifiable through appropriate interventions, such as psychological factors. For this reason, it is important to carry out a good screening for depression during pregnancy and consequently, be able to prevent its appearance or treat it if necessary.
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.