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The relationship between personality traits and individual factors with perinatal depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Pregnancy is a crucial transition moment exposing women to potential mental health problems, especially depressive disturbances. Sociodemographic, pregnancy-related, and psychological factors have been related to depressive symptoms in the perinatal period. This study aims at (1) explori...

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Autores principales: Serra, Riccardo, Giacchetti, Nicoletta, Bersani, Francesco Saverio, Cappannini, Gaia, Martucci, Melania, Panfili, Matteo, Sogos, Carla, Aceti, Franca
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10210385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37231375
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-023-05701-7
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author Serra, Riccardo
Giacchetti, Nicoletta
Bersani, Francesco Saverio
Cappannini, Gaia
Martucci, Melania
Panfili, Matteo
Sogos, Carla
Aceti, Franca
author_facet Serra, Riccardo
Giacchetti, Nicoletta
Bersani, Francesco Saverio
Cappannini, Gaia
Martucci, Melania
Panfili, Matteo
Sogos, Carla
Aceti, Franca
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description BACKGROUND: Pregnancy is a crucial transition moment exposing women to potential mental health problems, especially depressive disturbances. Sociodemographic, pregnancy-related, and psychological factors have been related to depressive symptoms in the perinatal period. This study aims at (1) exploring personality and individual factors related with perinatal depressive symptoms, and (2) testing the mediating role of personality in the relation between characteristics of the woman’s family of origin and depressive symptoms. METHODS: Women in the perinatal period admitted to the gynecology unit for motherhood-related routine assessments (n = 241) were included in the study. A survey on individual sociodemographic, clinical, and pregnancy-related factors was administered, also including the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and the BIG-5 personality test. RESULTS: Couple conflict and neuroticism were independent and directly correlated with EPDS total score (respectively: B = 2.337; p = .017; B = 0.303; p < .001). Neuroticism was a significant mediator of the relation between the presence of a psychiatric disorder diagnosis in participant’s parents and the EPDS total score (indirect b = 0.969; BCCI95%=0.366—1.607). CONCLUSIONS: Couple relation and neuroticism traits are individual factors related to depressive symptoms in the perinatal period. The family of origin also plays an indirect role on perinatal depressive symptoms. Screening of these factors could lead to early recognition and more tailored treatments, ultimately leading to better outcome for the entire family.
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spelling pubmed-102103852023-05-26 The relationship between personality traits and individual factors with perinatal depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional study Serra, Riccardo Giacchetti, Nicoletta Bersani, Francesco Saverio Cappannini, Gaia Martucci, Melania Panfili, Matteo Sogos, Carla Aceti, Franca BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research BACKGROUND: Pregnancy is a crucial transition moment exposing women to potential mental health problems, especially depressive disturbances. Sociodemographic, pregnancy-related, and psychological factors have been related to depressive symptoms in the perinatal period. This study aims at (1) exploring personality and individual factors related with perinatal depressive symptoms, and (2) testing the mediating role of personality in the relation between characteristics of the woman’s family of origin and depressive symptoms. METHODS: Women in the perinatal period admitted to the gynecology unit for motherhood-related routine assessments (n = 241) were included in the study. A survey on individual sociodemographic, clinical, and pregnancy-related factors was administered, also including the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and the BIG-5 personality test. RESULTS: Couple conflict and neuroticism were independent and directly correlated with EPDS total score (respectively: B = 2.337; p = .017; B = 0.303; p < .001). Neuroticism was a significant mediator of the relation between the presence of a psychiatric disorder diagnosis in participant’s parents and the EPDS total score (indirect b = 0.969; BCCI95%=0.366—1.607). CONCLUSIONS: Couple relation and neuroticism traits are individual factors related to depressive symptoms in the perinatal period. The family of origin also plays an indirect role on perinatal depressive symptoms. Screening of these factors could lead to early recognition and more tailored treatments, ultimately leading to better outcome for the entire family. BioMed Central 2023-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10210385/ /pubmed/37231375 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-023-05701-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Serra, Riccardo
Giacchetti, Nicoletta
Bersani, Francesco Saverio
Cappannini, Gaia
Martucci, Melania
Panfili, Matteo
Sogos, Carla
Aceti, Franca
The relationship between personality traits and individual factors with perinatal depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional study
title The relationship between personality traits and individual factors with perinatal depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional study
title_full The relationship between personality traits and individual factors with perinatal depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr The relationship between personality traits and individual factors with perinatal depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed The relationship between personality traits and individual factors with perinatal depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional study
title_short The relationship between personality traits and individual factors with perinatal depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional study
title_sort relationship between personality traits and individual factors with perinatal depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10210385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37231375
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-023-05701-7
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