Journal article
The prevalence and incidence of perinatal anxiety disorders among women experiencing a medically complicated pregnancy
Abstract
Over 20% of pregnancies involve medical difficulties that pose some threat to the health and well-being of the mother, her developing infant, or both. We report on the first comparison of the prevalence and incidence of maternal anxiety disorders (AD) in pregnancy and the postpartum, across levels of medical risk in pregnancy. Pregnant women (N = 310) completed postnatal screening measures for anxiety. Women who scored at or above cutoff on one …
Authors
Fairbrother N; Young AH; Zhang A; Janssen P; Antony MM
Journal
Archives of Women's Mental Health, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 311–319
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
4 2017
DOI
10.1007/s00737-016-0704-7
ISSN
1434-1816