Open AccessAssociation between perinatal depressive symptoms and suicidal risk among low-income South African women: a longitudinal study
Author(s) -
Emily Garman,
Annibale Cois,
Marguerite Schneider,
Crick Lund
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1433-9285
pISSN - 0933-7954
DOI - 10.1007/s00127-019-01730-w
Subject(s) - epidemiology , suicide prevention , poison control , injury prevention , depression (economics) , medicine , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , depressive symptoms , longitudinal study , psychiatry , association (psychology) , environmental health , demography , psychology , anxiety , sociology , economics , macroeconomics , pathology , psychotherapist
The aim of this study was to assess the association between depressive symptoms and suicidal risk over time among perinatal women at risk for depression antenatally, and assess modifying effects of age, perinatal stage and depressive symptom trajectory.