Lifetime prevalence and correlates of perinatal depression in a case-cohort study of depression.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study sought to evaluate the prevalence, timing of onset and duration of symptoms of depression in the perinatal period (PND) in women with depression, according to whether they had a history of depression prior to their first perinatal period. We further sought to identify biopsychosocial correlates of perinatal symptoms in women with depression.

Design and setting

The Australian Genetics of Depression Study is an online case cohort study of the aetiology of depression. For a range of variables, women with depression who report significant perinatal depressive symptoms were compared with women with lifetime depression who did not experience perinatal symptoms.

Participants

In a large sample of parous women with major depressive disorder (n=7182), we i

SUBMITTER: Kiewa J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9621163 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature