Older first-time mothers and early postpartum depression: A prospective cohort study of women conceiving spontaneously or with assisted reproductive technologies

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1218-1224

  McMahon, Catherine A ^a   Boivin, Jacky ^b   Gibson, Frances L ^a   Fisher, Jane R W ^c   Hammarberg, Karin ^d   Wynter, Karen ^c   Saunders, Douglas M ^e  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; maternal age; postpartum depression; psychosocial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MATERNAL AGE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NULLIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SPONTANEOUS CONCEPTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEW SOUTH WALES; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VICTORIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054992112     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.08.037     Document Type: Article

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