The role of nutrition, intimate partner violence and social support in prenatal depressive symptoms in rural Ethiopia: Community based birth cohort study

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Woldetensay, Yitbarek Kidane ^a,b   Belachew, Tefera ^b   Biesalski, Hans Konrad ^a   Ghosh, Shibani ^c   Lacruz, Maria Elena ^d   Scherbaum, Veronika ^a   Kantelhardt, Eva Johanna ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITÄT HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Ethiopia; Household food insecurity; Intimate partner violence; PHQ 9; Prenatal depression; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTENATAL DEPRESSION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FOOD INSECURITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 9; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; CATERING SERVICE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DEPRESSION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; DEPRESSION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NON-RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANT WOMEN; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85053323187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-018-2009-5     Document Type: Article

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