Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder symptoms as a risk factor for postpartum depressive symptoms.

ABSTRACT: For women with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) trait symptoms, coping with childbearing and parenting could be associated with postpartum depressive symptoms. Therefore, the possible relationship between OCPD trait symptoms and trajectories of postpartum depressive symptoms was examined. A cohort of 1427 women was followed from late pregnancy until 12 months' postpartum. Trajectories of postpartum depressive symptoms were determined using growth mixture modeling with five repeated assessments. Next, the relationship between OCPD trait symptoms and these trajectories was examined through multinomial regression. Three postpartum depressive symptom trajectories were identified: (1) low symptoms (92%), (2) increasing-decreasing symptoms (inverted u-shape) (5%), and (3) increas

SUBMITTER: van Broekhoven KEM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6647494 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature