ArticleSSM. Mental health2022
Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso.
Article in SSM. Mental health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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
14 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of an agricultural intervention on psychosocial health among pregnant and nonpregnant women with HIV in Kenya.AIDS (London, England) · 2026Trial
- Trial
- Understanding modifiable caregiver factors contributing to child development among young children in rural Malawi.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Trial
- Linking Women's Empowerment to Mental Health Symptoms: Population-Based Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2026Article
- Exploring the link between women's empowerment, depression, and anxiety in Bangladesh: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional study.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- Women's empowerment and health: nationwide insights on selected non-communicable conditions in Bangladesh.BMC public health · 2026Article
- SWPER-Measured women's empowerment and mental health in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study from 2022 demographic and health survey.BMC women's health · 2026Article
- Association between maternal mental health and child nutritional status in rural Sindh: a cross-sectional study using an e-health clinical model.BMJ paediatrics open · 2025Observational
- Female agency and probable depression in the perinatal period and beyond: Longitudinal findings from rural Pakistan.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- LoVE4MUM Mobile App to Prevent Postpartum Depression: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Women's household decision-making autonomy and mental health outcomes in Mozambique.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Engaging husbands in a digital mental health intervention to provide tailored counseling for women experiencing postpartum depression: A mixed methods study in Nepal.SSM. Mental health · 2024Article
- Role of women empowerment on mental health problems and care-seeking behavior among married women in Nepal: secondary analysis of nationally representative data.Archives of women's mental health · 2024Article
- "I became alright after birth": Mechanisms driving improvements in mental health symptoms in the postpartum transition among persons at risk for HIV in South Africa.Women's health (London, England)Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objective: Though there is a wide array of evidence that women's empowerment is associated with more positive health and nutritional outcomes for women and children, evidence around the relationship with mental health or subjective well-being remains relatively limited. The objective of this paper is to explore this relationship in longitudinal data from rural Burkina Faso. Methods: We analyze the association between empowerment measured using the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI), and two additional outcomes of interest: stress (measured using the SRQ-20) and maternal depression (measured using the Edinburgh scale for post-partum depression). The analysis employs both cross-sectional specifications and panel specifications conditional on individual fixed effects. Results: We find evidence of substantial negative correlations between the empowerment score and maternal stress and depression measured using both continuous and binary variables. This relationship seems to be particularly driven by self-efficacy and respect among household members, where higher scores have negative associations with depression and stress that are both large in magnitude and precisely estimated. Conclusion: Enhanced mental health may be another channel for a positive effect of empowerment on women's welfare.
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.