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Domestic Violence and Perinatal Mental Disorders

These findings suggest that women with high levels of symptoms of perinatal mental health disorders—antenatal and postnatal anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder—have a high prevalence and increased odds of having experienced domestic violence both over their lifetime and during pregnancy. However, these findings cannot prove causality, they fail to show a two-way association (that is, perinatal mental health disorders leading to subsequent domestic violence), and no information on other perinatal mental disorders, such as eating disorders and puerperal psychosis, was available. The variation of the quality of the included studies also limits the results, highlighting the need for high-quality data to suggest how maternity and mental health services could address domestic violence and improve health outcomes for women and their infants in the future. Nevertheless, this study emphasizes the importance of identifying and responding to possible domestic violence among women attending antenatal and mental health services.

Howard LM, Oram S, Galley H, Trevillion K, Feder G (2013) 

Domestic Violence and Perinatal Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

PLoS Med 10(5): e1001452. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001452

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