Treatment options and their uptake among women with symptoms of perinatal depression: exploratory study in Norway and Portugal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Perinatal depression is the most undertreated clinical condition during the perinatal period. Knowledge about women's decision-making in seeking and receiving treatment is scarce.

Aims

To investigate and compare treatment option uptake in perinatal women with depressive symptoms in Portugal and Norway, and to identify sociodemographic and health-related factors associated with treatment uptake.

Method

Participants were women resident in Portugal or Norway (≥18 years) who were pregnant or had given birth in the past 12 months, who presented with active depressive symptoms (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale score ≥10). In an electronic questionnaire, women reported treatment received and sociodemographic and health-related factors.

Results

The sampl

SUBMITTER: Fonseca A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10228243 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature