Neuraxial labour analgesia is associated with a reduced risk of maternal depression at 2 years after childbirth: A multicentre, prospective, longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Severe labour pain is an important risk factor of postpartum depression, and early depression is associated with an increased risk of long-term depression; whereas the use of epidural analgesia during labour decreases the risk of postpartum depression.

Objective

To investigate whether neuraxial labour analgesia was associated with a decreased risk of 2-year depression.

Design

This was a multicentre, prospective, longitudinal study.

Setting

The study was performed in Peking University First Hospital, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital and Haidian Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Beijing, China, between 1 August 2014 and 25 April 2017.

Patients

Five hundred ninety-nine nulliparous women with single-term cephalic pregnancy preparing

SUBMITTER: Liu ZH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6738542 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature