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
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.
Women are predisposed to maternal depression due to childbirth difficulties and parenting responsibilities, leading to long-term negative consequences on their children. The uptake of mental healthcare by British mothers of African/Caribbean origin is low due to the lack of access to culturally appropriate care. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
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Perinatal mental disorders are important contributors to maternal morbidity and mortality globally,1–3 and are associated with adverse infant and child outcomes.4 There is clear evidence-based guidance on the detection and treatment of perinatal mental disorders in the general population,5 ,6 but little evidence on vulnerable subgroups who may have distinct clinical presentation and/or service needs. In the two selected studies, population-based regional Canadian data are used to investigate perinatal mental health among migrant women (focusing on their postnatal use of mental health services compared with non-migrant women),7 and among women with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) (focusing on adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes among women with comorbid IDD and mental illness compared with women with IDD only).8 To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Perinatal mental disorders are important contributors to maternal morbidity and mortality globally,1–3 and are associated with adverse infant and child outcomes.4 There is clear evidence-based guidance on the detection and treatment of perinatal mental disorders in the general population,5 ,6 but little evidence on vulnerable subgroups who may have distinct clinical presentation and/or service needs. In the two selected studies, population-based regional Canadian data are used to investigate perinatal mental health among migrant women (focusing on their postnatal use of mental health services compared with non-migrant women),7 and among women with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) (focusing on adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes among women with comorbid IDD and mental illness compared with women with IDD only).8...To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity4.1 (Mar 2017): 105-114.
Male-partnered sexual minority women (SMW) have received little research attention, although they represent a large proportion of SMW, particularly child-bearing SMW. Male-partnered SMW are less “out” than female-partnered SMW and will likely be “read” as heterosexual by perinatal providers. Given this, and evidence that pregnant women have unique mental health care needs, the current study focuses on male-partnered SMW (n = 28) during the perinatal period, recruited from Toronto, Canada and Massachusetts, United States, in an effort to understand disclosure and concealment processes in general and specifically to perinatal health-care providers. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
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