Prevalence and characteristics of mistreatment during childbirth in two Israeli hospitals.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and characteristics of mistreatment during childbirth in Israeli medical centers, addressing gaps in quantitative data within developed countries.

Study Design: A new questionnaire, incorporating demographic, obstetric, and mistreatment-related questions, was developed and distributed to postpartum women in two Israeli hospitals. Mistreatment categories included physical, sexual, and verbal abuse, failure to meet professional standards, poor rapport between women and providers, and health system conditions.

Persistent symptoms of maternal post-traumatic stress following childbirth across the first months postpartum: Associations with perturbations in maternal behavior and infant avoidance of social gaze toward mother.

Recent literature identifies childbirth as a potentially traumatic event, following which mothers may develop symptoms of Post-Traumatic-Stress-Following-Childbirth (PTS-FC). The current study examines whether stable symptoms of PTS-FC during the early postpartum period may impose risk for perturbations in maternal behavior and infant social-engagement with mother, controlling for comorbid postpartum internalizing symptoms. Mother-infant dyads (N = 192) were recruited from the general population, during the third trimester of pregnancy.

Prospective risk from prenatal anxiety to post traumatic stress following childbirth: The mediating effects of acute stress assessed during the postnatal hospital stay and preliminary evidence for moderating effects of doula care.

Objective: Growing literature has identified childbirth as a potentially traumatic event, following which mothers may develop symptoms of Post-Traumatic-Stress-Following-Childbirth. The current study is the first to prospectively examine a pathway of risk from mothers' prenatal trait-anxiety, to Acute-Stress-Immediately-Following-Childbirth, and later symptoms of Post-Traumatic-Stress-Following-Childbirth, in a low-risk community sample. Auxiliary analyses explored whether doula care during childbirth moderated risk.

A machine learning approach to identifying pregnant women's risk for persistent post-traumatic stress following childbirth.

Intro: Recent literature identifies childbirth as a potentially traumatic event, following which mothers may develop symptoms of Post-Traumatic-Stress-Following-Childbirth (PTS-FC). Especially when persistent, PTS-FC may interfere with mothers' caregiving and associated infant development, underscoring the need for accurate predictive screening of risk. Drawing on recent developments in advanced statistical modeling, the aim of the current study was to identify a set of prenatal indicators and prediction rules that may accurately identify pregnant women's risk for developing symptoms of PTS-FC which persist throughout the early postpartum period.

A latent class analysis of brief postpartum psychiatric hospital admissions.

Almost 40% of postpartum psychiatric hospital admissions are brief, lasting 72h or less. We aimed to identify unique subgroups of women within this group to inform better intervention. All women in Ontario, Canada with a brief postpartum psychiatric admission (≤ 72h) (2007-2012)(N = 631) were studied using latent class analysis.

Short stay vs long stay postpartum psychiatric admissions: a population-based study.

About 1-2/1000 of postpartum women require psychiatric admission. Length of stay is variable, and little is known about short postpartum admission. From all women in Ontario, Canada, with a psychiatric admission within 1 year postpartum (2007-2012) (n = 1702), we compared women with admissions <72 h to women with longer admissions on sociodemographics, clinical characteristics and post-discharge mental health service use.

Psoriatic arthritis disease activity during pregnancy and the first-year postpartum.

Objectives: To evaluate disease activity in the joints and skin during pregnancy and the first-year postpartum in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA).

Methods: Women with PsA who were pregnant between 1990 and 2015 with at least 1 clinic visit during pregnancy were identified from the Toronto PsA database. The course of joint and skin disease activity was defined by the following 5 states: improvement, worsening, stable low, stable high, or a mixed.

First lifetime psychiatric admission in the postpartum period: A population-based comparison to women with prior psychiatric admission.

Objectives: To better understand women with a first lifetime psychiatric hospitalization in the postpartum period.

Methods: We included all 1071 postpartum women in Ontario, Canada, with a psychiatric admission in the 1-year postpartum (2007-2012). We compared women with their first lifetime psychiatric admission to those with any prior psychiatric admission on demographic and clinical characteristics and on mental health physician visits, psychiatric emergency department (ED) revisits and psychiatric readmission within 1-year postdischarge.

Postpartum anxiety in a cohort of women from the general population: risk factors and association with depression during last week of pregnancy, postpartum depression and postpartum PTSD.

Background: In contrast to postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety receives less attention, especially in the general population. Acknowledging the phenomenon is important, as it may lead to significant distress and impair maternal functioning.

Objectives: To explore the phenomenon in a cohort of women in the general population and to investigate possible associated factors.

Postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms: the uninvited birth companion.

Background: While many are familiar with postpartum depression, the phenomenon of postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is less well known and investigated.

Objectives: To assess the prevalence of postpartum PTSD in a cohort of women in Israel and examine factors affecting its development.

Methods: Eighty-nine women completed several ratings immediately post-delivery and after a month.