Maternal Resilience and Postpartum Depression at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Background: The neonatal intensive care unit causes maternal stress and postpartum depressive symptoms in preterm and term mothers. Personal resources like maternal resilience are usually not considered in counselling these women.

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the resilience and differences in postpartum depression after admission of newborns at the neonatal intensive care unit.

Neonates in the Intensive Care Unit: Maternal Health-Related Quality of Life and Depression After Term and Preterm Births.

To examine maternal physical and mental health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and depression after early and late preterm and term births in the early postpartum period. In a prospective pilot study, three groups of women whose newborns had to be treated in the neonatal ward during the immediate postpartum period were established and compared with each other: 20 women with extremely to very preterm birth, 20 with moderate to late preterm birth and 20 women with term birth. All participants completed the Short Form-12 Health Survey (SF-12) to measure HRQoL, and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) to detect depressive symptoms combined with independently developed questions to evaluate anxiety and psychological distress.

Health-Related Quality of Life and Depression in Women following Intrauterine Interventions in Complicated Monochorionic Twin Pregnancies.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to explore maternal health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and depression following intrauterine interventions in complicated monochorionic twin pregnancies at the Medical University Graz.

Material And Methods: In a cross-sectional questionnaire survey, women with at least one liveborn infant following intrauterine intervention during 2011 and 2015 were matched with uncomplicated monochorionic and dichorionic pregnancies. All completed the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey to measure HRQoL and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 to measure depression.

The impact of resilience on psychological outcomes in women after preeclampsia: an observational cohort study.

Background: Preeclampsia is a frequent obstetric complication which affects the mother`s and the fetus's health and can be life threatening. It also has an impact on psychological outcomes. There may be protective variables such as resilience shielding against psychosocial distress in women experiencing these pregnancy complications.

The impact of severe preeclampsia on maternal quality of life.

Purpose: Preeclampsia (PE) is a serious life event that can change women's psychological profile. The aim of this study was to evaluate the physical and mental health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) in women after PE and the impact of contributing factors.

Methods: Ninety-five women who had suffered from PE answered the Short-Form-12 Health Survey on general state of health.