Women's experiences of participating in a prospective, longitudinal postpartum depression study: insights for perinatal mental health researchers.

ABSTRACT: Barriers to recruitment for research on mental illness include participant distrust of researchers and social stigma. Though these issues may be acutely important in perinatal mental health research, they remain unexplored in this context. In order to inform strategies to more fully engage women in perinatal mental health research, we explored the motivations and experiences of women with a history of major depressive disorder who participated in a prospective longitudinal research study on postpartum depression (PPD). Sixteen women with a history of depression who had either completed or recently made a decision about participation in a longitudinal research study about PPD were interviewed by telephone. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews explored participants' decision-making about,

SUBMITTER: Andrighetti HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5511519 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature