Anxiety and depressive symptoms in pregnancy predict low birth weight differentially in male and female infants-findings from an urban pregnancy cohort in India.

Prabha D ChandraAakash BajajGeetha DesaiVeena A SatyanarayanaHelen M SharpSundarnag GanjekarT A SuprajaKavita V JangamLatha VenkatramThennarasu Kandavel

Published in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2021)

Increasing prenatal anxiety and depressive symptoms in different trimesters of pregnancy were associated with LBW with sex-specific patterns of association in this sample from a Low and Middle Income Country.

Keyphrases

preterm birth
depressive symptoms
low birth weight
sleep quality
preterm infants
pregnancy outcomes
human milk
social support
pregnant women
physical activity
mental health