Rasheda Khanam, Jennifer Applegate, Imran Nisar, Arup Dutta, Sayedur Rahman, Ambreen Nizar, Said Mohammed Ali, Nabidul Haque Chowdhury, Farzana Begum, Usha Dhingra, Fahmida Tofail, Usma Mehmood, Saikat Deb, Salahuddin Ahmed, Sajid Muhammad, Sayan Das, Saifuddin Ahmed, Harshita Mittal, Nicole Minckas, Sachiyo Yoshida, Rajiv Bahl, Fyezah Jehan, Sunil Sazawal, Abdullah H Baqui
INTRODUCTION: Women experience high rates of depression, particularly during pregnancy and the postpartum periods. Using population-based data from Bangladesh and Pakistan, we estimated the burden of antenatal depression, its risk factors, and its effect on preterm birth. METHODS: The study uses the following data: maternal depression measured between 24 and 28 weeks of gestation using the 9-question Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9); data on pregnancy including an ultrasound before 19 weeks of gestation; data on pregnancy outcomes; and data on woman's age, education, parity, weight, height, history of previous illness, prior miscarriage, stillbirth, husband's education, and household socioeconomic data collected during early pregnancy...
2022: PloS One