Mental health of pregnant and postpartum women during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis

H Yan, Y Ding, W Guo - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: Prenatal and postnatal mental disorders can exert severe adverse influences
on mothers, fetuses, and children. However, the effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 …

Prenatal developmental origins of behavior and mental health: The influence of maternal stress in pregnancy

BRH Van den Bergh, MI van den Heuvel… - Neuroscience & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Accumulating research shows that prenatal exposure to maternal stress increases the risk
for behavioral and mental health problems later in life. This review systematically analyzes …

Association between maternal perinatal depression and anxiety and child and adolescent development: a meta-analysis

A Rogers, S Obst, SJ Teague, L Rossen… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There is widespread interest in associations between maternal perinatal
depression and anxiety and offspring development; however, to date, there has been no …

Uptrend in distress and psychiatric symptomatology in pregnant women during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic

N Berthelot, R Lemieux… - Acta obstetricia et …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Prenatal maternal distress has a negative impact on the course of pregnancy,
fetal development, offspring development, and later psychopathologies. The study aimed to …

A meta-analysis of maternal prenatal depression and anxiety on child socioemotional development

S Madigan, H Oatley, N Racine, RMP Fearon… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective Observed associations between maternal prenatal stress and children's
socioemotional development have varied widely in the literature. The objective of the current …

Adverse childhood experiences and maternal anxiety and depression: a meta-analysis

N Racine, C Devereaux, JE Cooke, R Eirich, J Zhu… - BMC psychiatry, 2021 - Springer
Background It has been proposed that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can put
women at risk for mental illness in the pregnancy and postpartum periods. While some …

Mechanisms underlying the effects of prenatal psychosocial stress on child outcomes: beyond the HPA axis

R Beijers, JK Buitelaar, C de Weerth - European child & adolescent …, 2014 - Springer
Accumulating evidence from preclinical and clinical studies indicates that maternal
psychosocial stress and anxiety during pregnancy adversely affect child outcomes …

Anxiety-focused cognitive behavioral therapy delivered by non-specialists to prevent postnatal depression: A randomized, phase 3 trial

PJ Surkan, A Malik, J Perin, N Atif, A Rowther, A Zaidi… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Anxiety experienced by women during pregnancy is highly prevalent, especially in resource-
poor settings and strongly predicts postnatal common mental disorders (CMDs), anxiety and …

Perinatal depression: The role of maternal adverse childhood experiences and social support

N Racine, K Zumwalt, S McDonald, S Tough… - Journal of affective …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background A strong association between the number of adverse childhood experiences
(ACEs) and the risk of maternal depression has been demonstrated; however, this …

Maternal stress and child outcomes: Evidence from siblings

A Aizer, L Stroud, S Buka - Journal of Human Resources, 2016 - jhr.uwpress.org
We study how maternal stress affects offspring outcomes. We find that in utero exposure to
elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol negatively affects offspring cognition, health …