Emotional difficulties, coping strategies, and help-seeking patterns among Czech perinatal women.

Objective: To understand both, women´s perception of emotional difficulties in perinatal period and their related coping strategies. Further, we mapped and analysed help-seeking patterns utilized by these women to overcome their emotional difficulties. This study serve as an important piece of information for women-centred innovations in perinatal mental health care in Czechia, and more broadly in the region of Central and Eastern Europe.

Self-Reported Causes of Psychological Distress Among Czech Perinatal Women.

Background: Various risk factors to perinatal mental health disorders have been described; however, there is a dearth of data on the perspectives of women themselves regarding what increases the risk of psychological distress. This qualitative study explores women's perceptions of factors that increase the risk of perinatal psychological distress.

Aim: The aim of this study was to elucidate women's perceptions of factors that increase the risk of perinatal psychological distress.