Hashima E Nasreen, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Yvonne Forsell, Maigun Edhborg
BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the associated factors of antepartum depressive and anxiety symptoms (ADS and AAS) in low-income countries, yet the World Health Organization identifies depressive disorders as the second leading cause of global disease burden by 2020. There is a paucity of rese...
KH Nyqvist, GC Anderson, Nils Bergman, Adriano Cattaneo et al.
UNLABELLED: The hallmark of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is the kangaroo position: the infant is cared for skin-to-skin vertically between the mother's breasts and below her clothes, 24 h/day, with father/substitute(s) participating as KMC providers. Intermittent KMC (for short periods once or a few t...
HL McLachlan, DA Forster, MA Davey, Thomas J. Farrell et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether primary midwife care (caseload midwifery) decreases the caesarean section rate compared with standard maternity care. DESIGN: Randomised controlled trial. SETTING: Tertiary-care women's hospital in Melbourne, Australia. POPULATION: A total of 2314 low-risk pregnant wo...
Uma M. Reddy, Jonathan M. Davis, Zhaoxia Ren, Michael F. Greene et al.
In April 2016, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development invited experts to a workshop to address numerous knowledge gaps and to review the evidence for the screening and management of opioid use in pregnancy and neonatal abstinence syndrome. The rising prev...
Hashima E Nasreen, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Yvonne Forsell, Maigun Edhborg
BACKGROUND: There is a high prevalence of antepartum depression and low birth weight (LBW) in Bangladesh. In high- and low-income countries, prior evidence linking maternal depressive and anxiety symptoms with infant LBW is conflicting. There is no research on the association between maternal mental...
Jane Henderson, Haiyan Gao, Maggie Redshaw
BACKGROUND: According to the Office for National Statistics, approximately a quarter of women giving birth in England and Wales are from minority ethnic groups. Previous work has indicated that these women have poorer pregnancy outcomes than White women and poorer experience of maternity care, somet...
Md Mahbub Hossain, Fazilatun Nesa, Jyoti Das, Roaa Aggad et al.
Mental health problems among children and adolescents are increasingly reported amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. In this umbrella review, we aimed to synthesize global evidence on the epidemiologic burden and correlates of child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) problems during ...
Maureen M. Black, Abdullah H Baqui, K. Zaman, Scot McNary et al.
OBJECTIVE: To examine how maternal depressive symptoms are related to infant development among low-income infants in rural Bangladesh and to examine how the relationship is affected by maternal perceptions of infant irritability and observations of caregiving practices. METHODS: Development was meas...
Kaniz Gausia, Colleen Fisher, Mohammad Ali, Jacques Oosthuizen
Depression during pregnancy is a significant public health problem because of its negative effects on the health of both mother and infant. Data on its prevalence and determinants are lacking in Bangladesh. To estimate the prevalence of depression during pregnancy and to identify potential contribut...
Maigun Edhborg, Hashima E Nasreen, Zarina Nahar Kabir
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of depressive and anxiety symptoms on maternal bonding to the infant 2-3 months postpartum and the influence of the mother's bonding to the infant during pregnancy and to her own caregiver during her childhood on maternal bonding 2-3 months pos...
Anne Duffy, Sarah Goodday, Charles Keown‐Stoneman, Paul Grof
OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to describe the emergent course of bipolar disorder in offspring of affected parents subgrouped by parental response to lithium prophylaxis. METHODS: Parent bipolar disorder was confirmed by the best-estimate procedure and lithium response by research protocol. High-ris...
Jena Hamadani, Fahmida Tofail, Syed Nazmul Huda, Dewan S Alam et al.
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the timing and size of the cognitive deficit associated with poverty in the first 5 years of life and to examine the role of parental characteristics, pre- and postnatal growth, and stimulation in the home in Bangladeshi children. We hypothesized that the effect of p...
William T. Story, Sarah Burgard, Jody R. Lori, Fahmida Taleb et al.
BACKGROUND: A primary cause of high maternal mortality in Bangladesh is lack of access to professional delivery care. Examining the role of the family, particularly the husband, during pregnancy and childbirth is important to understanding women's access to and utilization of professional maternal h...
Charles P. Larson
It is estimated that nearly 100,000 children are born into poverty each year in Canada. During pregnancy, their mothers are likely to face multiple stressful life events, including lone-mother and teenage pregnancies, unemployment, more crowded or polluted physical environments, and far fewer resour...
Maureen M. Black, Abdullah H Baqui, K. Zaman, Shams El Arifeen et al.
Background Depressive disorders are a major source of disability among low-income mothers in developing countries. Objectives The objectives were to examine the association of maternal depressive symptoms and infant growth among infants in rural Bangladesh and to examine how the relation is affected...