ArticleJournal of affective disorders2023
Racial and ethnic differences in perinatal depression and anxiety.
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- Patient-clinician communication amongst black perinatal people: a systematic review.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of community-based interventions to address perinatal mental health.Seminars in perinatology · 2024Pooled it
- Collaborative Care Model for Perinatal Wellness Support Services - Population-Level Upstream Systems Change (COMPASS+): A Hybrid Type 2 Cluster Randomized Trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2026Trial
- Enhanced Prenatal Care Models and Postpartum Depression: The EMBRACE Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2026Trial
- Guidance on providing telebehavioral health care for perinatal populations: An assessment of resources and gaps.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Article
- Profiles of Depressive Symptoms Among Pregnant Patients Carrying Fetuses with Congenital Anomalies.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2026Article
- Sociocultural and Structural Determinants of Black Maternal Mental Health: A Scoping Review.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2026Article
- Global burden of depression and anxiety among women of reproductive age: socioeconomic disparities and policy implications.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Perinatal psychiatric symptoms and the continuum of breastfeeding in an urban university hospital population.AJOG global reports · 2026Article
- "And in some cases, we're the best option:" A qualitative study of community-based doula support for black perinatal mental health.American journal of community psychology · 2026Article
- Psychosocial stressors as modifiers of the associations between well-studied and understudied chemicals and birth outcomes in the ECHO Cohort.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2026Article
- A Critical Review of Post-Childbirth Pain Experiences and Management in Relation to Postpartum Depression Risk for Racial and Ethnic Minorities.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- Gestational PFAS concentrations in association with maternal depression and perceived stress during pregnancy and postpartum in the ECHO cohort.Environmental research · 2025Article
- Adverse Childhood Experiences, DNA Methylation, and Depressive Symptoms in Black Pregnant Women.Epigenomes · 2025Article
- Country of Birth, Race, Ethnicity, and Prenatal Depression.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Prevalence and Trajectories of Perinatal Anxiety and Depression in a Large Urban Medical Center.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Racial, ethnic, and neighborhood disparities in diagnosis of perinatal psychiatric illness.AJOG global reports · 2025Article
- Anxiety Sensitivity in the Perinatal Period: A Scoping Review.Mental health & prevention · 2025Article
- Are virtual services equivalent for mood, anxiety, and bonding? examining a perinatal intensive outpatient program.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- Acute hepatitis B virus infection in pregnancy: a case report of three patients with comorbid anxiety and their clinical outcomes.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundFindings on racial and ethnic differences in perinatal depression/anxiety are mixed.
methodsWe assessed racial and ethnic differences in depression, anxiety, and comorbid depression/anxiety diagnoses in the year before, during, and the year after pregnancy (n = 116,449) and depression severity during (n = 72,475) and in the year after (n = 71,243) pregnancy among patients in a large, integrated healthcare delivery system.
resultsCompared to Non-Hispanic White individuals, Asian individuals had lower risk of perinatal depression and anxiety (e.g., depression during pregnancy relative risk [RR] = 0.35, 95 % confidence interval [CI]:0.33-0.38) and postpartum moderate/severe (RR = 0.63, 95 % CI:0.60-0.67) and severe (RR = 0.66, 95 CI:0.61-0.71) depression but higher risk of moderate/severe depression during pregnancy (RR = 1.18, 95 % CI:1.11-1.25). Non-Hispanic Black individuals had higher risk of perinatal depression, comorbid depression/anxiety, and moderate/severe and severe depression (e.g., depression diagnoses during pregnancy RR = 1.35, 95 % CI:1.26-1.44). Hispanic individuals had lower risk of depression during pregnancy and perinatal anxiety (e.g., depression during pregnancy RR = 0.86, 95 % CI:0.82-0.90) but higher risk of postpartum depression (RR = 1.14, 95 % CI:1.09-1.20) and moderate/severe and severe depression during and after pregnancy (e.g., severe depression during pregnancy RR = 1.59, 95 % CI:1.45-1.75). LIMITATIONS: Information on depression severity was unavailable for some pregnancies. Findings may not generalize to individuals without insurance or outside of Northern California.
conclusionsNon-Hispanic Black individuals of reproductive age should be targeted with prevention and intervention efforts aimed at reducing and treating depression and anxiety. Asian and Hispanic individuals of reproductive age should be targeted with campaigns to destigmatize mental health disorders and demystify treatments and systematically screened for depression/anxiety.
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