Trajectories of maternal depressive and anxiety symptoms from pregnancy to five years postpartum and their prenatal predictors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Maternal depression and anxiety have distinct constellations of symptom trajectories, which are associated with factors that may vary between different groups of women. The aim of this study was to identify subgroups of women who exhibit unique longitudinal trajectory patterns of depressive and anxiety symptoms from pregnancy to 5 years postpartum and the antenatal predictors associated with these maternal groups.

Methods

The study used a longitudinal data collected from 615 women in Saskatchewan from pregnancy to 5 years postpartum. Semiparametric group-based models were used to identify latent maternal depressive and anxiety trajectory groups. Multinomial logit models were then used to assess the association between maternal characteristics and the identified la

SUBMITTER: Ahmed A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6332639 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature