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Postnatal Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Risk Following Miscarriage
The experience of miscarriage is an important population-level problem that affects approximately 10–25% of pregnancies. The physical consequences of miscarriage have been researched extensively, but psychological sequelae less so. First-person accounts show that women who have experienced miscarria...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9180236/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35682100 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116515 |
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author | Kukulskienė, Milda Žemaitienė, Nida |
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description | The experience of miscarriage is an important population-level problem that affects approximately 10–25% of pregnancies. The physical consequences of miscarriage have been researched extensively, but psychological sequelae less so. First-person accounts show that women who have experienced miscarriage feel pressured to stay silent, to grieve, and to fight intense physical and psychological challenges alone. There is ample scientific evidence on the links between miscarriage and physical and mental health disorders, such as complicated grief, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, suicidal risk, psychosomatic disorders, sexual health disorders, etc. However, there is a lack of deeper understanding of the specifics of psychological morbidity after miscarriage, as well as of the information on vulnerability and resilience factors. This study aims to assess the risk of postnatal depression and post-traumatic stress following miscarriage. A total of 839 Lithuanian women who had one or more miscarriages were asked to complete an online questionnaire, including the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and the Impact of Events Scale-Revised (IES-R). Of the women, 59.1% were found to be at increased risk of postnatal depression and 48.9% at high risk of postnatal depression; 44.7% of the women were considered to be at increased risk of post-traumatic stress. An impaired relationship with one’s body and childlessness has been the strongest predictors of psychological morbidity risk. |
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spelling | pubmed-91802362022-06-10 Postnatal Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Risk Following Miscarriage Kukulskienė, Milda Žemaitienė, Nida Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The experience of miscarriage is an important population-level problem that affects approximately 10–25% of pregnancies. The physical consequences of miscarriage have been researched extensively, but psychological sequelae less so. First-person accounts show that women who have experienced miscarriage feel pressured to stay silent, to grieve, and to fight intense physical and psychological challenges alone. There is ample scientific evidence on the links between miscarriage and physical and mental health disorders, such as complicated grief, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, suicidal risk, psychosomatic disorders, sexual health disorders, etc. However, there is a lack of deeper understanding of the specifics of psychological morbidity after miscarriage, as well as of the information on vulnerability and resilience factors. This study aims to assess the risk of postnatal depression and post-traumatic stress following miscarriage. A total of 839 Lithuanian women who had one or more miscarriages were asked to complete an online questionnaire, including the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and the Impact of Events Scale-Revised (IES-R). Of the women, 59.1% were found to be at increased risk of postnatal depression and 48.9% at high risk of postnatal depression; 44.7% of the women were considered to be at increased risk of post-traumatic stress. An impaired relationship with one’s body and childlessness has been the strongest predictors of psychological morbidity risk. MDPI 2022-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9180236/ /pubmed/35682100 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116515 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Kukulskienė, Milda Žemaitienė, Nida Postnatal Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Risk Following Miscarriage |
title | Postnatal Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Risk Following Miscarriage |
title_full | Postnatal Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Risk Following Miscarriage |
title_fullStr | Postnatal Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Risk Following Miscarriage |
title_full_unstemmed | Postnatal Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Risk Following Miscarriage |
title_short | Postnatal Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Risk Following Miscarriage |
title_sort | postnatal depression and post-traumatic stress risk following miscarriage |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9180236/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35682100 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116515 |
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