Creating a Multisite Perinatal Psychiatry Databank: Purpose and Development.

ABSTRACT: Mental health issues during the perinatal period are common; up to 29% of pregnant and 15% of postpartum women meet psychiatric diagnostic criteria. Despite its ubiquity, little is known about the longitudinal trajectories of perinatal psychiatric illness. This paper describes a collaboration among six perinatal mental health services in Quebec, Canada, to create an electronic databank that captures longitudinal patient data over the course of the perinatal period. The collaborating sites met to identify research interests and to select a standardized set of variables to be collected during clinical appointments. Procedures were implemented for creating a databank that serves both research and clinical purposes. The resulting databank allows pregnant and postpartum patients to complete sel

SUBMITTER: Kattan W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7765035 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature