Cesarean effects on adolescents' birth experiences: counterfactual analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The birth experience of adolescents is understudied even though they are a particularly vulnerable population to experience a negative birth event, given that they exhibit many known risk factors.

Objective

To ascertain whether a cesarean birth mediates the impact of infant complications on the birth experience of adolescent mothers.

Methods

Using a secondary analysis of data collected from 303 postpartum adolescents previously evaluated for depression and post-traumatic stress, we employed counterfactual causal analysis to determine if delivery type mediated the birth experience at different levels of depression. Noted limitations pertain to methodological assumptions and computational feasibility as well as potential sample bias.

Results

We found

SUBMITTER: Connolly JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7879090 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature