Childhood maltreatment exposure is differentially associated with transdiagnostic perinatal depression symptoms.

ABSTRACT: History of childhood maltreatment (CM) is common and robustly associated with prenatal and postpartum (perinatal) depression. Given perinatal depression symptom heterogeneity, a transdiagnostic approach to measurement could enhance understanding of patterns between CM and perinatal depression.

Methods

In two independently collected samples of women receiving care at perinatal psychiatry clinics (n = 523 and n = 134), we categorized longitudinal symptoms of perinatal depression, anxiety, stress, and sleep into transdiagnostic factors derived from the Research Domain Criteria and depression literatures. We split the perinatal period into four time points. We conducted a latent profile analysis of transdiagnostic factors in each period. We then used self-reported history of CM (total e

SUBMITTER: Pingeton BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11194995 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature