Receipt of a psychosocial intervention for prenatal anxiety and risk of perinatal intimate partner violence in Pakistani women.

ABSTRACT: Mental health and intimate partner violence (IPV) are urgent public health problems in the perinatal period. We examined whether a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) intervention designed to lower prenatal anxiety led to differing risk of perinatal IPV between the intervention and control arms. We investigated if social support or spousal relationship quality in the third trimester mediated this association. The analysis included 755 pregnant Pakistani women with at least mild anxiety participating in a randomized clinical trial, which was conducted from April 2019 to October 2022. Intervention arm participants received up to six CBT-based treatment sessions (and up to five booster sessions), while controls received enhanced usual care. After implementing multivariate imputation using chai

SUBMITTER: Park S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12753053 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature