Prenatal care: associations with prenatal depressive symptoms and social support in low-income urban women

Autor: Patricia A. Harrison, Wendy L. Hellerstedt, Abbey C. Sidebottom, Rhonda J Jones-Webb
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Archives of Women's Mental Health. 20:633-644
ISSN: 1435-1102
1434-1816
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-017-0730-0
Popis: We examined associations of depressive symptoms and social support with late and inadequate prenatal care in a low-income urban population. The sample was prenatal care patients at five community health centers. Measures of depressive symptoms, social support, and covariates were collected at prenatal care entry. Prenatal care entry and adequacy came from birth certificates. We examined outcomes of late prenatal care and less than adequate care in multivariable models. Among 2341 study participants, 16% had elevated depressive symptoms, 70% had moderate/poor social support, 21% had no/low partner support, 37% had late prenatal care, and 29% had less than adequate prenatal care. Women with both no/low partner support and elevated depressive symptoms were at highest risk of late care (AOR 1.85, CI 1.31, 2.60, p
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