Title
Causal model of the association of social support with antepartum depression: Amarginal structural modeling approach
Date Issued
01 September 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Oxford University Press
Abstract
We used marginal structural models to evaluate associations of social support with antepartum depression in late pregnancy, if everyone had had high social support both before pregnancy and during early pregnancy, compared with having low social support at one of the 2 time points or low social support at both time points. In 2012-2014, pregnant Peruvian women (n = 3,336) were recruited into a prospective cohort study (at amean gestational age of 9 weeks). A follow-up interview (n = 2,279) was conducted (at 26-28 weeks of gestation). Number of available support providers and satisfaction with social support weremeasured using Sarason Social SupportQuestionnaire-6. Depression wasmeasured using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. Low number of support providers at both time pointswas associated with increased risk of depression (odds ratio = 1.62, 95% confidence interval: 1.12, 2.34). The association for low satisfaction at both time points was marginally significant (odds ratio = 1.41, 95% confidence interval: 0.99, 1.99). Depression risk was not significantly higher for womenwho reported high social support at one of the 2 time points. Our study reinforces the importance of assessing social support before and during pregnancy and underscores the need for future interventions targeted at increasing the number of support providers to prevent antepartum depression.
Start page
1871
End page
1879
Volume
187
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Epidemiología Obstetricia, Ginecología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85055150543
PubMed ID
Source
American Journal of Epidemiology
ISSN of the container
00029262
Sponsor(s)
This research was supported by an award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (grant R01-HD-059835).
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