ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2021
Mental Health Conditions Increase Severe Maternal Morbidity By 50 Percent And Cost $102 Million Yearly In The United States.
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- Systematic Review of Nature-Based Interventions for Perinatal Depression, Anxiety, and Loneliness.Maternal and child health journal · 2024Pooled it
- Economic evaluation of screening, treatment, and prevention interventions for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders: a systematic review.General hospital psychiatryPooled it
- Comparing two posttraumatic stress disorder screening approaches to improve health outcomes in pregnant black women: a comparative effectiveness trial protocol.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Trial
- Dialectical behavior therapy skills training for African American pregnant women with ACEs: a pilot study of feasibility, acceptability, and mental health barriers and attitudes.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Trial
- Design and implementation of a stratified care model for refugee women's behavioral health in an obstetrical care setting.Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare · 2026Article
- Guidance on providing telebehavioral health care for perinatal populations: An assessment of resources and gaps.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Article
- Breaking the cycle: a review of the impacts of maternal PTSD, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and health disparities among Black women.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2026Review
- Maternal Mental Health and Labor Dysfunction: Prenatal Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Labor Dystocia, and Unplanned Cesarean in a Cohort of Black Pregnant People.Research in nursing & health · 2026Article
- Perinatal mood and anxiety diagnoses and treatment increased among medicaid births, 2017-2021.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Who is screened for perinatal mental health? findings from an academic health system in California.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Article
- Trends and adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with post-traumatic stress disorder: a population-based study of delivery hospitalisations.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2026Article
- Decolonizing infant mental health: Black maternal mental health decision-making.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Association Between Mental Illness and Risk of Severe Maternal Morbidity in Pregnant Veterans.Obstetrics and gynecology · 2026Article
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- Mandated perinatal mental health screening in California: a mixed-methods exploration.Health affairs scholar · 2026Article
- Variations in Postpartum Readmission by Individual Race, Ethnicity, and Rurality in South Carolina.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Impact of substance use and trauma on postpartum readmission rates and hospitalization costs: An observational study.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2025Observational
- Confronting the Crisis: Actions to Address Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Among Black Women in Rural Georgia.Preventing chronic disease · 2025Article
- Perinatal mental health and risk of severe maternal morbidity in women with physical disabilities, Massachusetts 2003-2015.Disability and health journal · 2025Article
- Risk of adverse infant outcomes associated with maternal mental health and substance use disorders.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Perinatal mental health disorders are increasingly acknowledged as contributors to adverse maternal outcomes. We analyzed data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project National Inpatient Sample (2016 and 2017) to estimate hospitalization cost, length-of-stay, and severe maternal morbidity associated with perinatal mental health disorders overall, as well as stratified by payer and by specific mental health category. We found that people with mental health disorders had $458 higher costs per delivery hospitalization and 50 percent higher rates of severe maternal morbidity compared with people without mental health disorders. We estimated increased annual delivery hospitalization costs of $102 million in the US among people with perinatal mental health conditions compared with those without. Furthermore, people diagnosed with trauma- or stress-related mental health disorders had even higher rates of hospitalization costs-$825 higher per delivery-and 87 percent higher rates of severe maternal morbidity compared with people without those diagnoses. These findings provide important information for perinatal mental health program feasibility and cost-effectiveness analyses and suggest the need for increased focus on trauma- and stress-related disorders.
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