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Impact of unintended pregnancy on maternal mental health: a causal analysis using follow up data of the Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC)

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, April 2015
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Title
Impact of unintended pregnancy on maternal mental health: a causal analysis using follow up data of the Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC)
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, April 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12884-015-0505-4
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Authors

Jinwook Bahk, Sung-Cheol Yun, Yu-mi Kim, Young-Ho Khang

Abstract

Pregnancy intention is important for maternal and child health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine the causal relation between pregnancy intention and maternal depression and parenting stress in Korean women who gave birth during 2008. This study is a retrospective evaluation of prospectively collected data from the Panel Study on Korean Children from 2008 to 2010. Causal analyses were conducted using propensity score matching and inverse probability of treatment weighted methods. In addition, mediation analyses were performed to test mitigating effects of marital conflict, fathers' participation in childcare, and mothers' knowledge of infant development on the relation between unintended pregnancy and adverse maternal mental health. Results showed that the overall effect of an unintended pregnancy on maternal depression and parenting stress was statistically significant. An unintended pregnancy was associated with 20-22% greater odds of maternal depression, 0.28-0.39 greater depression score, and 0.85-1.16 greater parenting stress score. Relations between pregnancy intention and maternal depression, maternal depression score and parenting stress score were moderately explained by marital conflict and fathers' participation in childcare. Unintended pregnancy contributed to increased risks of maternal depression and parenting stress. Efforts to increase fathers' participation in childcare and decrease marital conflict might be helpful to mitigate adverse impacts of unintended pregnancy on perinatal maternal mental health.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Romania 1 <1%
Unknown 444 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 66 15%
Student > Bachelor 54 12%
Researcher 33 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 23 5%
Other 69 16%
Unknown 169 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 80 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 64 14%
Social Sciences 41 9%
Psychology 32 7%
Engineering 9 2%
Other 44 10%
Unknown 175 39%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 181. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 March 2023.
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