Authors
Joanne Cacciatore, Ingela Rådestad, J Frederik Frøen
Publication date
2008/12
Journal
Birth
Volume
35
Issue
4
Pages
313-320
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Inc
Description
Background
Some guidelines encourage mothers to see and hold their babies after stillbirth, which might be traumatizing. The study objective was to investigate the effects of women seeing and holding their stillborn baby on the risk of anxiety and depression in a subsequent pregnancy and in the long term.
Methods
Thirty‐seven organizations recruited women who had experienced stillbirth (N = 2,292 of whom 286 reported being pregnant). Anxiety and depressive symptoms were assessed by using the 25‐item Hopkins Symptom Check List.
Results
Among nonpregnant women, seeing and holding their stillborn baby were associated with lower anxiety symptoms (OR 0.68, 95% CI 0.49–0.95) and a tendency toward fewer symptoms of depression (OR 0.72, 95% CI 0.51–1.02), compared with pregnant women. Participants who were pregnant also had less depressive symptomatology (OR 0.57, 95 …
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Scholar articles
J Cacciatore, I Rådestad, J Frederik Frøen - Birth, 2008