Antenatal maternal emotional distress and duration of pregnancy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective(s)

We sought to prospectively study the association between antenatal emotional distress and gestational length at birth as well as preterm birth.

Study design

We followed up 40,077 primiparous women in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study. Emotional distress was reported in a short form of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 (SCL-5) at 17 and 30 weeks of gestation. Gestational length at birth, obtained from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway, was used as continuous (gestational length in days) and categorized (early preterm (22-31 weeks) and late preterm (32-36 weeks) versus term birth (≥ 37 weeks)) outcome, using linear and logistic regression analysis, respectively. Births were divided into spontaneous and provider-initiated.

Results

Of all women, 7

SUBMITTER: Lukasse M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4084954 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature