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. 2024;45(9):1034-1047.
doi: 10.1080/07399332.2023.2261104. Epub 2023 Sep 25.

Impacts of childbirth on anxiety, disability, and depression: Results from a Brazilian cohort

Stephanie Pabon  1   2 , José Paulo Guida  1 , Martha Narvaez Lamus  2 , Charles MPoca Charles  1 , Mary Angela Parpinelli  1 , María Fernanda Escobar  2 , José Guilherme Cecatti  1 , Maria Laura Costa  1
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Impacts of childbirth on anxiety, disability, and depression: Results from a Brazilian cohort

Stephanie Pabon et al. Health Care Women Int. 2024.
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Abstract

Conditions such as violence, drug abuse, sexual satisfaction, anxiety, depression, and disability interfere with a healthy pregnancy and can also account for maternal morbidity. The instrument WOICE was built by WHO to measure it. We applied WOICE in a prospective cohort of 125 pregnant women, using a before-after approach, during the third trimester of pregnancy, and after 42 until 90 days of childbirth. 60% had anxiety during pregnancy, decreasing to 48.8% after delivery (p = 0.07), and depression scores decreased from 7.56 to 5.80 (p = 0.014). Disability affected 62.4% and 56, respectively. 9.6% used drugs during pregnancy, reducing to 4.0% after delivery (RR 0.69, IC 0.49 - 0.69).

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