Infertility treatment and postpartum mental illness: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Subfertility and infertility treatment can be stressful experiences, but it is unknown whether each predisposes to postpartum mental illness. We sought to evaluate associations between subfertility or infertility treatment and postpartum mental illness.

Methods

We conducted a population-based cohort study of individuals without pre-existing mental illness who gave birth in Ontario, Canada, from 2006 to 2014, stratified by fertility exposure: subfertility without infertility treatment; noninvasive infertility treatment (intrauterine insemination); invasive infertility treatment (in vitro fertilization); and no reproductive assistance. The primary outcome was mental illness occurring 365 days or sooner after birth (defined as ≥ 2 outpatient visits, an emergency depa

SUBMITTER: Dayan N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9196066 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature