Postnatal Mental Health of Women Giving Birth in Australia 2002–2004: Findings from the Beyondblue National Postnatal Depression Program

Buist, Anne; Austin, Marie‐Paule; Hayes, Barbara; Speelman, Craig; Bilszta, Justin; Gemmill, Alan W.; Brooks, Janette; Ellwood, David; Milgrom, Jeannette

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“…The transition to parenthood, both in pregnancy and in the early postpartum period, is associated with an increased vulnerability for mental health problems, such as depression (Buist et al, 2008;Paulson & Bazemore, 2010), anxiety (Lee et al, 2007) and PTSD (Ayers & Pickering, 2001) in both parents, with higher prevalence rates among women (Ramchandani et al, 2005). Recent studies (Iles, Slade, & Spiby, 2011;Wee, Skouteris, Pier, Richardson, & Milgrom, 2011) also suggest that psychological symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) could be associated within couples.…”

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A prospective study of the parent–baby bond in men and women 15 months after birth

Parfitt

Ayers

Pike

et al. 2014

Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology

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Objective: To prospectively examine the impact of parental mental health (PTSD, depression and anxiety), the couple's relationship quality and the infant temperament on the parent-baby bond in first-time mothers and fathers. Background: Evidence suggests that poor parental mental health, difficult infant temperament and/or lower quality of the couple's relationship may impede the parent-baby bond. However, little research has included both parents or followed these measures across time. Methods: 75 women and 66 men completed questionnaire measures during pregnancy, 3 and 15 months postpartum, assessing mental health symptoms, the parent-baby bond, the couple's relationship and infant characteristics. The response rates at different time-points were 90%, 77% and 70%. Results: The parent-baby bond was associated with parental mental health, the couple's relationship and infant characteristics. The most important predictors of the parent-baby bond three months postpartum for both men and women were the couple's relationship during pregnancy and their baby's temperament at three months. At 15 months postpartum, after accounting for the parent-baby bond at 3 months, only concurrent infant temperament remained a significant predictor for women. However, men's bond with their baby at 15 months was predicted by their relationship with their partner in pregnancy and concurrent affective symptoms. Few significant gender differences were found, apart from women reporting more mental health symptoms than men. Conclusion: This study highlights the significance of the couple's relationship in pregnancy and the infant's temperament on the development of the parent-baby bond. Future research is needed to examine this in larger more representative samples.Keywords: parent-baby bond; mental health; longitudinal; father(s); mother(s) IntroductionThe formation of a close positive early relationship between a parent and their baby is widely viewed as important for a range of child outcomes, such as social, emotional and cognitive development. Impaired parent-baby relationships have been estimated to range between 3% and 9% in the general population (Righetti-Veltema, Conne-Perrard, Bousquet, & Manzano, 2002;Skovgaard et al., 2008) and between 10% and 25% in psychiatric samples (Brockington, 2004).

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Section: Parental Mental Healthmentioning

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A prospective study of the parent–baby bond in men and women 15 months after birth

Parfitt

Ayers

Pike

et al. 2014

Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology

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“…The methods employed to collect data from the rural cohort, and the depression-screening protocol involving the urban cohort, 8 may have not all resulted in all potential pregnant women participating and/or being included in the postnatal follow-up. Despite this, the present study had a large rural sample size of over 1,000 women compared to the smaller numbers involved in previous studies.…”

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“…8 For the period that urban data was collected, the follow-up response rate (i.e. the number of women screened antenatally who were also screened postnatally) was 61% at the Angliss Hospital and 47% at the Northern Hospital.…”

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A geographic comparison of the prevalence and risk factors for postnatal depression in an Australian population

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Meyer

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objective: This study sought to compare the contribution of demographic and psychosocial variables on the prevalence of, and risk for, PND in urban and rural women.Methods: Demographic, psychosocial risk factor and mental health data was collected from urban (n=908) and rural (n=1,058) women attending perinatal health services in Victoria, Australia.Initial analyses determined similarities and significant differences between demographic and psychosocial variables.The association between these variables and PND case/non-case was evaluated using logistic regression analysis.Results: There were a number of

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“…In recent years this level of fecundity has resulted on average, in excess of 300,000 babies being born each year (ABS 2014). Studies have indicated that postnatal depression may affect a significant number of these women (Buist et al 2008, Chojenta et al 2016. As well, studies have suggested that women's depression may continue over time (Pawlby et al 2009, Leis et al 2014.…”

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Women’s mental health following the birth of a child: a life course approach

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Does the experience of being pregnant, giving birth and becoming a mother affect women's mental health over their reproductive life course? Much of the research on maternal mental health has focused on the perinatal period. In recent times, research has extended to patterns of women's mental health over the years following the birth of their baby. In this thesis, associations between women's experiences around pregnancy and giving birth, and patterns of their mental health impairment in the years following the baby's birth, are examined.Participants: Three datasets were used for this thesis. The primary dataset was the Mater and Methods: Six studies are the core contribution of this body of research. These studies, five cohort studies and one cross-sectional study, addressed the thesis' aims and objectives.Studies' outcome measures generally related to women's mental health, rated by the Delusions-Symptoms-States-Inventory: state of Anxiety and Depression (DSSI/sAD) (Bedford et al., 1976) and assessed at time-points post-birth. In three studies, women's DSSI depression measures at various time-points were combined to create depressive-symptoms trajectories. The Mental Disorder Screening Tool (MDST), constructed from women's DSSI/sAD responses (Saiepour et al., 2014) and measuring mental health impairment, was an outcome measure for one study. Another study's outcomes were based on women's reported alcohol consumption before pregnancy and at their first clinic visit. A broad range of predictor and potential confounding variables, taken at different MUSP survey phases, were included in the studies' analyses. Descriptive and inferential analyses were used. Univariate and multivariable regression analysis derived odds ratios and relative risk ratios with 95% confidence intervals. Pregnancy and birth events were found to contribute little to women's experience of depression. Pregnant women who experienced stressful life events (that is, financial, housing and relational events), were at higher risk of having depressive symptoms over the 27-year period. The proportion of women with mental health impairment was higher at 21 years post birth than at six months post birth. Women whose offspring had behaviour problems were themselves at risk of mental health impairment at 21 years post birth. As well, mental health problems in pregnancy; young motherhood; not completing high school and low family income; and having poor social networks around baby's birth, and marital discord in pregnancy, predicted women's poorer mental health over time. Today's pregnant women are more likely to be older and have higher body mass indexes, more likely to be anxious but not depressed, and more are sure about wanting to be pregnant, compared to pregnant women from previous decades. Today's pregnant women are also less likely to be smokers but are more often consuming alcohol prior to pregnancy, though they substantially reduce their alcohol consumption in pregnancy. Socio-economic disadvantage and psychosocial problems in pregnancy ...

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Postnatal Mental Health of Women Giving Birth in Australia 2002–2004: Findings from the Beyondblue National Postnatal Depression Program

Cited by 125 publications

References 34 publications

A prospective study of the parent–baby bond in men and women 15 months after birth

A prospective study of the parent–baby bond in men and women 15 months after birth

A geographic comparison of the prevalence and risk factors for postnatal depression in an Australian population

Women’s mental health following the birth of a child: a life course approach

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