Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Though there is a wide array of evidence that women's empowerment is associated with more positive health and nutritional outcomes for women and children, evidence around the relationship with mental health or subjective well-being remains relatively limited. The objective of this paper is to explore this relationship in longitudinal data from rural Burkina Faso.

Methods

We analyze the association between empowerment measured using the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI), and two additional outcomes of interest: stress (measured using the SRQ-20) and maternal depression (measured using the Edinburgh scale for post-partum depression). The analysis employs both cross-sectional specifications and panel specifications conditional on indivi

SUBMITTER: Leight J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9792374 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature