Increased traumatic childbirth and postpartum depression and lack of exclusive breastfeeding in Black and Latinx individuals
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The findings underscore the disproportionate burden of mental health complications following childbirth on Black and Latinx individuals delivering during the coronavirus pandemic and call for eliminating disparities.
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Minoritized women are at three times higher risk of experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms.
“minoritized women, who are at three times higher risk of experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms60.”
From AI and narrative embeddings detect PTSD following childbirth via birth stories (2024) · cites this paper as [60]
The Results report that Black and Hispanic/Latinx women who gave birth during the pandemic were three times more likely than matched non-Hispanic White women to report clinically relevant acute traumatic stress to childbirth. The claim broadens that finding to minoritized women generally and calls the measured outcome post-traumatic stress symptoms; the paper says the acute stress level indicates risk for post-traumatic stress disorder, not that it measured those symptoms. (LLM, conf=0.85)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThis could improve the accessibility of CB-PTSD diagnosis, addressing socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic disparities associated with childbirth trauma by helping to identify minoritized women.
“Importantly, this could improve the accessibility of CB-PTSD diagnosis, addressing socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic disparities associated with childbirth trauma59,60 by helping to identify minoritized women, who are at three times higher risk of experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms60.”
From AI and narrative embeddings detect PTSD following childbirth via birth stories (2024) · cites this paper as [60]
The Results (page unavailable) report that Black and Hispanic/Latinx participants were three times more likely than non-Hispanic White participants to report clinically relevant acute traumatic stress after childbirth, which the paper describes as indicating risk for PTSD. The Discussion reports racial and ethnic disparities, but the study does not establish a socioeconomic disparity or measure a threefold difference in diagnosed PTSD. Improving diagnostic accessibility is the citing authors’ proposal, not a finding attributed to this source. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Authors
- Iyengar, A. S., Ein‐Dor, T., Zhang, E. X., Chan, S. J., Kaimal, A. J., & Dekel, S.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Reichman University (IL)
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dekel, Sharon
- Venue
- International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2022-06-14
- Volume
- 158
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 759-761
- ISSN
- 0020-6695 (ISSN-L)
- 0020-7292
- 1879-3479
- PMC
- PMC9378664
- OpenAlex
- W4281253830
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1
- FWCI
- 3.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R03HD101724, R21HD100817)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Obstetrics and Gynecology › Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Keywords
- traumatic birth, postpartum depression, exclusive breastfeeding, Black women, Latinx women, racial disparities, COVID-19 pandemic, maternal mental health
- MeSH terms
- Breast Feeding, Depression, Female, Humans, Pregnancy, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Depression, Postpartum, Parturition, Postpartum Period
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