Role of depressive symptoms on the development of pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy: A prospective inception cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy is a major public health concern. For too many women, the pain condition causes disability and sick leave, has a negative impact on daily life, and breeds doubt in their view as mother, partner, and worker. The pathophysiology is unknown and causal treatment is lacking. Depression in pregnancy is common, undertreated, and previously associated with pelvic girdle pain with unclear causal direction.

Material and methods

A prospective inception cohort study of 356 Swedish women examined them in early and late pregnancy. Women with a positive Posterior Pelvic Pain Provocation test in early pregnancy were not included. The exposure, depressive symptoms in early pregnancy, was self-reported on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale,

SUBMITTER: Algard T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10541153 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature