Prenatal Depressive Symptoms and Postpartum Sexual Risk Among Young Urban Women of Color.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

To determine whether prenatal depressive symptoms are associated with postpartum sexual risk among young, urban women of color.

Design

Participants completed surveys during their second trimester of pregnancy and at 1 year postpartum. Depressive symptoms were measured using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale, excluding somatic items because women were pregnant. Logistic and linear regression models adjusted for known predictors of sexual risk and baseline outcome variables were used to assess whether prenatal depressive symptoms make an independent contribution to sexual risk over time.

Setting

Fourteen community health centers and hospitals in New York City.

Participants

The participants included 757 predominantly black and L

SUBMITTER: Cunningham SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5536107 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature