Jean Ko, PhD and coauthors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, found that more than 1 in 10 women ages 18-44 years had a major depressive event during the previous year\u2014representing about 1.2 million U.S. women\u2014but more than half of those women did not receive a diagnosis of depression and nearly half did not receive any mental health treatment<\/strong>. The article \u201cDepression and Treatment among U.S. Pregnant and Nonpregnant Women of Reproductive Age, 2005-2009,\u201d further reports that disparities in receiving a diagnosis and treatment were associated with younger age, belonging to a racial\/ethnic minority, and insurance status.<\/p>\n The accompanying Editorial entitled \u201cDepression: Is Pregnancy Protective?\u201d by Jennifer Payne, MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, explores the ongoing challenges in the adequate diagnosis and treatment of major depression, the additional factors that come into play during pregnancy, and the implications of the Ko et al. study results.<\/p>\n \u201cAs health care providers, we simply must do a better job at diagnosing depression and referring women for mental health treatment. Reproductive health care visits provide an opportune time to address this ,\u201d says Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Women\u2019s Health<\/em>, Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women\u2019s Health, Richmond, VA, and President of the Academy of Women\u2019s Health<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Mary Ann Liebert Inc. press release: Major depression affects as many as 16% of reproductive-aged women in the U.S. Yet pregnant women have a higher rate of undiagnosed… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10],"tags":[14,49,158,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5767,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions\/5767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/Pregnancy2.jpg\" "\\"pregnancy\\"")
Major depression affects as many as 16% of reproductive-aged women in the U.S. Yet pregnant women have a higher rate of undiagnosed depression than nonpregnant women<\/strong>, according to a study published in Journal of Women\u2019s Health<\/em>, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Journal of Women\u2019s Health<\/em> website.<\/p>\n