Depressive symptomatology during pregnancy: evidence for an association with decreased fetal growth in pregnancies of lower social class women.

摘要: The relationship between depressive symptom scores on the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D; L. S. Radloff, 1977) at each trimester of pregnancy and a decrement in either fetal growth or gestational duration was evaluated among 666 pregnant women. There no association overall, but 222 women from lower occupational status households, unit increase CES-D 28 weeks gestation associated with reduction 9.1 g (95% confidence interval [CI] = -16.0, -2.3) gestational-age-adjusted birth weight. When missing data were multiply imputed, estimate -4.6 CI - 10.7, 1.5). score unrelated to analyses other potentially high-risk subgroups: smokers, history adverse outcome, social vulnerabilities. These results raise possibility that women, mood may be restricted growth.