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Good perinatal mental health begins before pregnancy. New @2000Stories research by @liz_spry suggests greater investment in #preconception #mentalhealth, including healthy supportive relationships, could disrupt the developmental pathways leading to PND. bit.ly/2R2hwYw

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Strengthening women’s #socialsupport and reducing depressive symptoms during pregnancy may reduce risk of postnatal depression for mothers with pre-pregnancy mental health problems by up to half, a new @2000Stories study has found. Find out more: bit.ly/2R2hwYw

This paper is part of a fantastic multidisciplinary @RSocPublishing special issue on maternal mental health and social support, edited by @abbeyepage @SMyers1983 @Emily_Emmott – well worth checking out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2021/…

Thank you to all co-authors including those on twitter @_MargaritaMB @gcpatton1 @SWMH_IoPPN @JacquiMacd @MK_Middleton @CJGResearch

Greater investment in #preconception mental health may yield even greater benefits for women, by disrupting the developmental pathways to PND.

Findings support trialling of targeted antenatal interventions that focus on improving women’s mental health, social context, and supportive relationships.

Using causal mediation methods, we estimated that effective intervention to reduce antenatal depressive symptoms and improve social support could reduce this additional risk of PND in women with prior mental health symptoms by up to half.

We found that rates of PND at 2 months & 1 year postpartum were ~15% in women with persistent #preconception symptoms, versus 2-3% in women without.

We assessed 398 women in @2000stories up to 12 times over 20 years before, during pregnancy and in the first year postpartum.

A past history of depression is one of the strongest risk factors for postnatal depression (PND). We asked: how can we disrupt this risk?

Our paper on preventing #postnatal depression is out in @RSocPublishing! A 🧵. TL;DR: Women with persistent symptoms pre-pregnancy are >5x more likely to have PND. We could reduce this risk dramatically by effective intervention before & during pregnancy. bit.ly/2R2hwYw

To prevent PND in women at risk, pregnancy interventions should go beyond screening for depressive symptoms to also address social context. New @2000Stories research by @liz_spry promotes family-focused and partner-inclusive #antenatal care. Read more: bit.ly/2R2hwYw

Mothers with persistent mental health problems before pregnancy are more likely to experience postnatal depression (PND) – but we can disrupt this risk, a new @2000Stories study has found. Read the full text here: bit.ly/2R2hwYw #womenshealth

Congratulations @liz_spry, awarded Best Thesis in the Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology) at @Deakin and the @Deakin School of Psychology ECR Top Publication Award 2020, for the open access @2000Stories VIHCS paper bit.ly/2Q3KS8I

Given it is clear we will live with #COVID-19 for the foreseeable future, #schoolclosures should not be a reactionary measure but a last resort. @MCRI_for_kids' @Fiona_M_Russell, @DanchinMargie & @sharon_goldfeld suggest a traffic light system instead.🚦 theconversation.com/we-cant-close-…

Some shameless self-promotion: My article on multi-generation cohorts is out in Child Development Perspectives doi.org/10.1111/cdep.1… I argue that developmental science benefits hugely when we extend longitudinal cohorts (like @TRAILS_WW) to include offspring. Why? A🧵 1/6

Congratulations to @DocTinaK on a great paper! looking at how extending longitudinal cohorts like @2000Stories & @TRAILS_WW to include participants' children helps us to understand how parents' developmental histories might influence the next generation

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