Maternal mental health in Australia and New Zealand: A review of longitudinal studies

Schmied, Virginia; Johnson, Maree; Naidoo, Navindhra; Austin, Marie‐Paule; Matthey, Stephen; Kemp, Lynn; Mills, Annie; Meade, Tanya; Yeo, Anthony E. T.

doi:10.1016/j.wombi.2013.02.006

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“…This estimate falls within the range of previously published prevalence estimates (9% to 16%) from other literature reviews (Schmied et al, 2013;Underwood et al, 2016). In contrast to previous reviews, the current review generated a pooled prevalence estimate that was adjusted for a selection of variables identified through a meta-regression model, which when combined was able to explain 31% of the variability in prevalence reported between studies.…”

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A systematic review and meta-regression of the prevalence and incidence of perinatal depression

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Ferrari

Siskind

et al. 2017

Journal of Affective Disorders

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A systematic review and meta-regression of the prevalence and incidence of perinatal depression

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Siskind

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“…Does the observed increase in mental health problems for adolescent girls, have implications for an increase in the mental health problems for fertility-aged women? A review of Australian and New Zealand longitudinal studies reported that the proportion of women with depressive symptoms in the first year after birth has remained stable over the past 25 years (Schmied et al, 2013). This thesis will investigate the possibility that women and young women in particular, have experienced an increase in poor mental health in more recent years.…”

Section: Mental Health Over Timementioning

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“…In Australia, postnatal depression reportedly affects 12% to 15% of childbearing women, with prevalence ranging from 3% to 30% depending on the method and time of assessment (Buist et al, 2008). More recently, a review of Australian and New Zealand longitudinal studies reported that the proportion of women with depressive symptoms in the first year after birth was between 10 to 20% (Schmied et al, 2013). A review of anxiety disorders in pregnancy, also found great variation between studies' prevalence rates, most likely the result of the differing disorders examined (Goodman et al, 2014).…”

Section: Women's Mental Health Perinatal and Beyondmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These predictors include, young (Goossens et al, 2015) and single motherhood (Rousou et al, 2013), poor quality partner relationships (Akincigil et al, 2010, Schmied et al, 2013, O'Hara and Wisner, 2014, Norhayati et al, 2015, Yim et al, 2015, low levels of social support (Norhayati et al, 2015, O'Hara and Wisner, 2014, Ross and Dennis, 2009), socio-economic disadvantage (O'Hara andWisner, 2014, Beck, 2001) and stressful life events (Norhayati et al, 2015, Yim et al, 2015, Meijer et al, 2014. Also, from studies of differing methodologies, indicators of substance misuse (Ross and Dennis, 2009) and poor physical health (Wang et al, 2016) predicted women's poor psychological status.…”

Section: Women's Mental Health Perinatal and Beyondmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Of greater interest were findings from a combined systematic review and meta-analysis which showed women whose partners were emotionally close and supportive appeared to be protected against developing perinatal depression and anxiety (Pilkington et al, 2015). Likewise findings from another large systematic review (Yim et al, 2015) and a review of longitudinal studies (Schmied et al, 2013) showed poor-quality partner-relationships strongly predicted women's experience of depression in the postnatal period. With this level of evidence linking poor quality partner relationships with women's poor mental health in the postnatal period, it is plausible to suggest this association continues over women's life course.…”

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Women’s mental health following the birth of a child: a life course approach

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Does the experience of being pregnant, giving birth and becoming a mother affect women's mental health over their reproductive life course? Much of the research on maternal mental health has focused on the perinatal period. In recent times, research has extended to patterns of women's mental health over the years following the birth of their baby. In this thesis, associations between women's experiences around pregnancy and giving birth, and patterns of their mental health impairment in the years following the baby's birth, are examined.Participants: Three datasets were used for this thesis. The primary dataset was the Mater and Methods: Six studies are the core contribution of this body of research. These studies, five cohort studies and one cross-sectional study, addressed the thesis' aims and objectives.Studies' outcome measures generally related to women's mental health, rated by the Delusions-Symptoms-States-Inventory: state of Anxiety and Depression (DSSI/sAD) (Bedford et al., 1976) and assessed at time-points post-birth. In three studies, women's DSSI depression measures at various time-points were combined to create depressive-symptoms trajectories. The Mental Disorder Screening Tool (MDST), constructed from women's DSSI/sAD responses (Saiepour et al., 2014) and measuring mental health impairment, was an outcome measure for one study. Another study's outcomes were based on women's reported alcohol consumption before pregnancy and at their first clinic visit. A broad range of predictor and potential confounding variables, taken at different MUSP survey phases, were included in the studies' analyses. Descriptive and inferential analyses were used. Univariate and multivariable regression analysis derived odds ratios and relative risk ratios with 95% confidence intervals. Pregnancy and birth events were found to contribute little to women's experience of depression. Pregnant women who experienced stressful life events (that is, financial, housing and relational events), were at higher risk of having depressive symptoms over the 27-year period. The proportion of women with mental health impairment was higher at 21 years post birth than at six months post birth. Women whose offspring had behaviour problems were themselves at risk of mental health impairment at 21 years post birth. As well, mental health problems in pregnancy; young motherhood; not completing high school and low family income; and having poor social networks around baby's birth, and marital discord in pregnancy, predicted women's poorer mental health over time. Today's pregnant women are more likely to be older and have higher body mass indexes, more likely to be anxious but not depressed, and more are sure about wanting to be pregnant, compared to pregnant women from previous decades. Today's pregnant women are also less likely to be smokers but are more often consuming alcohol prior to pregnancy, though they substantially reduce their alcohol consumption in pregnancy. Socio-economic disadvantage and psychosocial problems in pregnancy ...

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Is Population‐Based Identification of Perinatal Depression and Anxiety Desirable?

Gavin¹,

Meltzer‐Brody²,

Glover³

2015

Identifying Perinatal Depression and Anxiety

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Maternal mental health in Australia and New Zealand: A review of longitudinal studies

Cited by 149 publications

References 83 publications

A systematic review and meta-regression of the prevalence and incidence of perinatal depression

A systematic review and meta-regression of the prevalence and incidence of perinatal depression

Women’s mental health following the birth of a child: a life course approach

Is Population‐Based Identification of Perinatal Depression and Anxiety Desirable?

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