Journal article
Intimate partner violence across pregnancy and the postpartum and the relationship to depression and perinatal wellbeing: findings from a pregnancy cohort study
M Galbally, S Watson, K MacMillan, K Sevar, LM Howard
Archives of Women S Mental Health | SPRINGER WIEN | Published : 2024
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Abstract
Purpose: To compare the prevalence of emotional and physical intimate partner violence (IPV) across pregnancy and the first year postpartum in those with and without clinical depression and assess the association between maternal childhood trauma, current stressful life events and depression and IPV over the perinatal period. Methods: Data were obtained from 505 pregnant women from the Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Wellbeing Study (MPEWS), a cohort study with data collected across pregnancy until 12 months postpartum. Maternal antenatal depression was measured using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-IV) with repeat measurement of perinatal depressive symptoms using the Edinb..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank those who have supported the development of MPEWS including Marinus van IJzendoorn, Andrew Lewis, and Michael Permezel. The authors also thank staff, students and volunteers on the MPEWS study as well as study co-ordinators for their contribution to MPEWS. The authors thank Spinnaker Foundation, WA Country Health Service and WA Childrens Research Fund for the support of the study. We are also sincerely grateful to the study participants who have contributed a substantial amount of time to participating in this study.