Sequential screening for psychosocial and behavioural risk during pregnancy in a population of urban African Americans.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Screening for psychosocial and behavioural risks, such as depression, intimate partner violence, and smoking, during pregnancy is considered to be state of the art in prenatal care. This prospective longitudinal analysis examines the added benefit of repeated screening, compared with a single screening, in identifying such risks during pregnancy.

Design

Data were collected as part of a randomised controlled trial to address intimate partner violence, depression, smoking, and environmental tobacco smoke exposure in African American women.

Setting

Prenatal care sites in the District of Columbia serving mainly women of minority background.

Population

A cohort of 1044 African American pregnant women in the District of Columbia.

Methods

Mothers were

SUBMITTER: Kiely M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3775859 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature