Characterization of Maternal Psychosocial Stress During Pregnancy: The Healthy Start Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To capture multidimensional maternal psychosocial stress using responses from the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) administered during pregnancy, and to identify sociodemographic, biological, and health behavioral correlates of the stress domains.

Methods

Using data from 1,079 pregnant women, we implemented principal component analysis on EPDS and PSS responses and retained factors based on the Scree plot and Eigenvalues >1. We then used linear regression to identify perinatal correlates of each domain.

Results

We identified three stress domains: "Feeling Overwhelmed," "Anhedonia," and "Lack of Control," which accounted for 10.6% of variance in questionnaire responses. In multivariable analyses, household i

SUBMITTER: Dhaliwal SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9436384 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature