TY - JOUR
T1 - Postnatal depressive symptoms in women with and without antenatal depressive symptoms
T2 - results from a prospective cohort study
AU - Pampaka, Despina
AU - Papatheodorou, Stefania I.
AU - AlSeaidan, Mohammad
AU - Al Wotayan, Rihab
AU - Wright, Rosalind J.
AU - Buring, Julie E.
AU - Dockery, Douglas W.
AU - Christophi, Costas A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments The TRACER study received funding from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science and was supported by the Dasman Institute for Diabetes Research and the Kuwait Ministry of Health. We would also like to thank the administration and clinical staff at the South Hawalli Clinic, Al-Hakim Clinic, West Farwaniya Clinic, Subah Al Naser Clinic, Jahraa Clinic, Al-Sager Clinic, Al-Qurain Health Clinic, New Mowasat Hospital, and Royale Hayat Hospital. Most of all, we thank the participants of the TRACER study.
Funding Information:
Funding The TRACER study received funding from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science.
Funding Information:
The TRACER study received funding from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science and was supported by the Dasman Institute for Diabetes Research and the Kuwait Ministry of Health. We would also like to thank the administration and clinical staff at the South Hawalli Clinic, Al-Hakim Clinic, West Farwaniya Clinic, Subah Al Naser Clinic, Jahraa Clinic, Al-Sager Clinic, Al-Qurain Health Clinic, New Mowasat Hospital, and Royale Hayat Hospital. Most of all, we thank the participants of the TRACER study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2019/2/1
Y1 - 2019/2/1
N2 - Evidence exists that the risk factors for depression in the antenatal and postnatal period may differ, but only a handful of studies looked at depression longitudinally. The aims of this study were (1) to estimate the prevalence of postnatal depressive symptoms in Kuwait where data about postnatal depression are scarce and identify its determinants and (2) to compare these risk factors between women who had experienced antenatal depressive symptoms and those that did not. Data collected in the TRansgenerational Assessment of Children’s Environmental Risk (TRACER) Study in Kuwait were used in this analysis. The sample was restricted to the 1348 women who answered the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) both antenatally and postnatally. The prevalence of postnatal depressive symptoms, defined by an EPDS score ≥ 10, was 11.7%. Overall, antenatal depressive symptoms were the strongest determinant of postnatal depressive symptoms. Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that in women with depressive symptoms in pregnancy, having a lower household income was the most significant risk factor for postnatal depressive symptoms. Among women without antenatal depressive symptoms, those who had lower income, were Kuwaitis, experienced other problems in pregnancy such as perceived stress, PTSD symptoms and social isolation, and those who delivered a boy had higher odds of postnatal depressive symptoms. Antenatal depressive symptoms and other psychosocial characteristics can predict postnatal depressive symptoms. Therefore, maternal mental health issues should be detected during the antenatal period and support should be provided in order to lower the risk of postnatal depression and its sequelae.
AB - Evidence exists that the risk factors for depression in the antenatal and postnatal period may differ, but only a handful of studies looked at depression longitudinally. The aims of this study were (1) to estimate the prevalence of postnatal depressive symptoms in Kuwait where data about postnatal depression are scarce and identify its determinants and (2) to compare these risk factors between women who had experienced antenatal depressive symptoms and those that did not. Data collected in the TRansgenerational Assessment of Children’s Environmental Risk (TRACER) Study in Kuwait were used in this analysis. The sample was restricted to the 1348 women who answered the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) both antenatally and postnatally. The prevalence of postnatal depressive symptoms, defined by an EPDS score ≥ 10, was 11.7%. Overall, antenatal depressive symptoms were the strongest determinant of postnatal depressive symptoms. Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that in women with depressive symptoms in pregnancy, having a lower household income was the most significant risk factor for postnatal depressive symptoms. Among women without antenatal depressive symptoms, those who had lower income, were Kuwaitis, experienced other problems in pregnancy such as perceived stress, PTSD symptoms and social isolation, and those who delivered a boy had higher odds of postnatal depressive symptoms. Antenatal depressive symptoms and other psychosocial characteristics can predict postnatal depressive symptoms. Therefore, maternal mental health issues should be detected during the antenatal period and support should be provided in order to lower the risk of postnatal depression and its sequelae.
KW - Antenatal depressive symptoms
KW - Kuwait
KW - Mental health
KW - Postnatal depressive symptoms
KW - Pregnancy
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U2 - 10.1007/s00737-018-0880-8
DO - 10.1007/s00737-018-0880-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 29971553
AN - SCOPUS:85049585121
SN - 1434-1816
VL - 22
SP - 93
EP - 103
JO - Archives of Women's Mental Health
JF - Archives of Women's Mental Health
IS - 1
ER -