ArticleJournal of affective disorders2024
Screening for post-traumatic stress disorder following childbirth using the Peritraumatic Distress Inventory.
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- Peritraumatic dissociation during childbirth in Nigeria: A preliminary study.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2025Article
- From pregnancy to the postpartum: Unraveling the complexities of symptom profiles among trauma-exposed women.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Incidence of Perinatal Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Catalonia: An Observational Study of Protective and Risk Factors.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- AI and narrative embeddings detect PTSD following childbirth via birth stories.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- OpenAI's Narrative Embeddings Can Be Used for Detecting Post-Traumatic Stress Following Childbirth Via Birth Stories.Research square · 2024Article
- A Systematic Review of Interventions for Prevention and Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Following Childbirth.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following traumatic childbirth may undermine maternal and infant health, but screening for maternal childbirth-related PTSD (CB-PTSD) remains lacking. Acute emotional distress in response to a traumatic experience strongly associates with PTSD. The Peritraumatic Distress Inventory (PDI) assesses acute distress in non-postpartum individuals, but its use to classify women likely to endorse CB-PTSD is unknown.
methods3039 women provided information about their mental health and childbirth experience. They completed the PDI regarding their recent childbirth event, and a PTSD symptom screen to determine CB-PTSD. We employed Exploratory Graph Analysis and bootstrapping to reveal the PDI's factorial structure and optimal cutoff value for CB-PTSD classification.
resultsFactor analysis revealed two strongly correlated stable factors based on a modified version of the PDI: (1) negative emotions and (2) bodily arousal and threat appraisal. A score of 15+ on the modified PDI produced high sensitivity and specificity: 88 % with a positive CB-PTSD screen in the first postpartum months and 93 % with a negative screen. LIMITATIONS: In this cross-sectional study, the PDI was administered at different timepoints postpartum. Future work should examine the PDI's predictive utility for screening women as closely as possible to the time of childbirth, and establish clinical cutoffs in populations after complicated deliveries.
conclusionsBrief self-report screening concerning a woman's emotional reactions to childbirth using our modified PDI tool can detect those likely to endorse CB-PTSD in the early postpartum. This may serve as the initial step of managing symptoms to ultimately prevent chronic manifestations.
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