Prevalence and Trajectories of Perinatal Anxiety and Depression in a Large Urban Medical Center.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Perinatal depression and anxiety are common yet underdiagnosed and undertreated. There are limited data on screening rates, severity, and treatment, and thus an urgent need to estimate accurately perinatal depression and anxiety over time, to inform timely and efficacious interventions.

Objective

To evaluate screening and treatment rates, prevalence, and symptom trajectories over time of perinatal depression and anxiety in a large urban medical center.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study included electronic health records of all patients who gave birth at NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP)/Weill Cornell Medical Center or NYP Lower Manhattan Hospital between December 1, 2020, and February 1, 2024. In March 2023, a mandatory Edinburgh Po

SUBMITTER: Solomonov N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12455385 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature