Commentary on Exploring Black and South Asian women’s experiences of help-seeking and engagement in perinatal mental health services in the UK. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
Overall, this was a well-designed and careful study with important findings for women of a child-bearing age who may be sensitive to hormonal changes in reference to their depression.
Predicting the course and complications of perinatal depression through the identification of clinical subtypes has been previously undertaken using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and has the potential to improve the precision of care and improve outcomes for women and their children. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpp.2893?af=R
Healthcare professionals need increased awareness and knowledge of the risk of perinatal mental illnesses among migrant women, and mental health should be routinely discussed in maternity and other healthcare services that serve women who are migrants.