A bioecological longitudinal study of depressive symptoms from pregnancy to 36 months postpartum.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Depressive symptoms during the perinatal period have broad and enduring health implications for birthing parents and their offspring. Rising prevalence rates of perinatal depression highlight the need for research examining factors influencing depressive symptoms during pregnancy, and trajectories during the early postnatal period. Grounded in bioecological systems theory, this longitudinal multimethod study examined whether prenatal bioecological factors predict depressive symptoms from pregnancy to 36 months postpartum.

Methods

Participants were 162 pregnant individuals, oversampled for high emotion dysregulation, who completed a life stress interview and physiological assessment during the 3rd trimester and a self-report measure of depression at five time-points (

SUBMITTER: Molina NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11512642 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature