Longitudinal patterns of the relation between anxiety, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder among postpartum women with and without maternal morbidities in Northwest Ethiopia: a cross-lagged autoregressive structural equation modelling.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The postpartum period is a time where mothers can undergo significant changes that increase vulnerability for depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. However, the direct and indirect factors of depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and their direction of relationships following childbirth is not well investigated in Ethiopia. The aim of this study was to determine the direct and indirect factors of depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and their direction of relationships following childbirth.

Methods

A total of 775 women consented to participate at the first, second and third follow-up of the study (6^th, 12^th and 18^th week of postpartum period) during Octobe

SUBMITTER: Malaju MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9617360 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature