Cure8 research brief
Mothers with chronic diseases such as MS and IBD appear to have higher rates of peripartum mental illness requiring care across serial pregnancies, so awareness and monitoring during and between pregnancies may be important.
Pregnant patients or parents with MS, IBD, epilepsy, or diabetes; obstetricians, primary-care clinicians, and mental-health providers; researchers in peripartum mental health.
The study used administrative health data and validated definitions to track mental-illness diagnoses and health-care use during the peripartum periods for mothers who had two live births.
Among mothers with MS, about one in five had incident mental illness in the first peripartum period and about one in nine in the second; roughly one-quarter received mental-health care during the second peripartum period.
After adjusting for covariates, mothers with MS had higher active prevalence of depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder versus comparators; the paper reports similar patterns for epilepsy, IBD, and diabetes. This brief is based on the article abstract provided on PubMed and does not reflect review of the full published manuscript beyond the abstract.
Findings come from population administrative data in Ontario using validated diagnostic definitions and reflect diagnosed conditions and health‑care use ("active" prevalence). The abstract was used as the source for this brief.
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