TY - JOUR
T1 - Chronic prenatal depression and neonatal outcome
AU - Field, Tiffany
AU - Diego, Miguel
AU - Hernandez-Reif, Maria
AU - Figueiredo, Barbara
AU - Schanberg, Saul
AU - Kuhn, Cynthia
AU - Deeds, Osvelia
AU - Contogeorgos, Jennifer
AU - Ascencio, Angela
N1 - Funding Information:
Received 25 September 2007. The authors thank the mothers and infants who participated in this study. This research was supported by a merit award (MH # 46586) and Senior Research Scientist Awards from NIH (MH# 00331 and AT# 001585) and a grant (March of Dimes # 12-FYO3-48) to Tiffany Field and funding from Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute to the Touch Research Institutes. Address correspondence to Tiffany Field, Ph.D., Touch Research Institutes, University of Miami School of Medicine, P.O. Box 016820 Miami, Florida, 33101 USA. E-mail: tfield@med.miami.edu
PY - 2008/1
Y1 - 2008/1
N2 - Four hundred and thirty pregnant women were recruited at approximately 22 weeks gestation at prenatal clinics. Of these, 86 (20%) were diagnosed as depressed. The women were seen again at approximately 32 weeks gestation and after delivery. Chronicity of depression was evidenced by continuing high depression scores in those women diagnosed as depressed. Comorbid problems were chronically high anxiety, anger, sleep disturbance, and pain scores. Less optimal outcomes for the depressed women included lower gestational age and lower birthweight of their newborns.
AB - Four hundred and thirty pregnant women were recruited at approximately 22 weeks gestation at prenatal clinics. Of these, 86 (20%) were diagnosed as depressed. The women were seen again at approximately 32 weeks gestation and after delivery. Chronicity of depression was evidenced by continuing high depression scores in those women diagnosed as depressed. Comorbid problems were chronically high anxiety, anger, sleep disturbance, and pain scores. Less optimal outcomes for the depressed women included lower gestational age and lower birthweight of their newborns.
KW - Low birthweight
KW - Prematurity
KW - Prenatal depression
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U2 - 10.1080/00207450601042144
DO - 10.1080/00207450601042144
M3 - Article
C2 - 18041608
AN - SCOPUS:36448944753
VL - 118
SP - 95
EP - 103
JO - International Journal of Neuroscience
JF - International Journal of Neuroscience
SN - 0020-7454
IS - 1
ER -