Maternal Mental Disorders (MMD): Mental illness of women in pregnancy and early motherhood. Maternal Mental Health
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Project type
Dienstleistungsprojekt
Project start
15.02.2015
Project end
30.09.2015
Project status
abgeschlossen
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Project manager
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Description
Abstract
Mental illness of women in pregnancy and early motherhood is widely recognised as having significant implications for the mother, the child and the family. The most significant maternal mental disorders are characterized as depressive symptoms during pregnancy associated with anxiety (15-30%) (O'Hara, Gorman & Wright, 1996), while postpartum depression within the first year after childbirth shows a prevalence rate of 13%-19% (O'Hara & McCabe, 2013). The consequences of MMD are varied and may affect the lives of women and their families drastically and in a long lasting ways (O'Hara & McCabe, 2013). In most countries MMD are not screened and assessed adequately nor documented systematically or treated appropriately. For Switzerland MMD can be considered an underresearched area and we assume a gap in health care provision for affected mothers. Aims of the project: Data analysis of inpatient (Medizinische Statistik, BFS) and ambulant care (Helsana) to estimate prevalence rate of MMD in Switzerland. Development of a qualitative research proposal with health care professional providing care to affected women and single interviews with affected women and their families itself.
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School
Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit FHNW
Institute
Institut Soziale Arbeit und Gesundheit
Financed by
University of Applied Sciences Bern, Discipline Midwifery-Research
Project partner
University of Applied Sciences Bern, Discipline Midwifery-Research
Contracting authority
University of Applied Sciences Bern, Discipline Midwifery-Research
University Clinics of Basel, Berne and Zurich
Womens Clinic of the Kantonsspital Aarau
Kennedy, Holly
University Clinics of Basel, Berne and Zurich
Womens Clinic of the Kantonsspital Aarau
Kennedy, Holly
SAP reference
S218-0012
Keywords
Maternal Mental Health