Risk of depression in pregnancy among pregnant women undergoing high-risk prenatal care.
Gabriela de Magalhães Ribeiro, Julia Ferreira Cieto, Mônica Maria de Jesus Silva
PMID 35858012WHAT IT FOUND
Most pregnant women in high-risk prenatal care showed elevated depression risk, especially those without a partner or previous pregnancies.
Screening for these social factors during prenatal visits may help identify women needing mental health support.
Key findings
0178.1% of participants had a higher risk of developing depression during pregnancy.
02Being married or having a partner was associated with an 89% lower chance of higher depression risk.
03Living in a non-owned home was associated with 2.22 times higher likelihood of elevated depression risk.
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What it does not show
Cross-sectional design cannot establish cause and effect Data collected during COVID-19 pandemic may inflate anxiety and depression scores Online self-report method may not capture women without digital access Single-centre study in Brazil limits generalisability
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No conflicts of interest reported.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret the high depression risk rate as evidence of clinical depression. The ERDEG scale measures risk factors, not diagnosis, and the pandemic context may have artificially elevated scores.