Maternal Mental Health
The latest poster in AHA’s People Matter, Words Matter series focuses on using compassionate language when discussing maternal mental health.
The three-part Beyond Birth podcast series explores how hospitals and health systems can support the social and emotional needs of pregnant people and new parents.
Today we’re proud to share some recent AHA resources surrounding behavioral health.
Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders are the single largest complication of pregnancy and childbirth.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first pill to treat postpartum depression in adults, whose symptoms can range from sadness and loss of energy to cognitive impairment and suicidal ideation. Patients would take the drug (Zurzuvae) for 14 days.
Suicide accounts for one in five postpartum deaths; one in five women experience a perinatal mental health condition; and over half of pregnant women with depression do not receive treatment, according to a new AHA infographic highlighting the grim statistics surrounding maternal mental health,…
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has released a free online course to help clinicians address perinatal mental health.
Compared to the pre-pandemic period, the trend in new postpartum mental health diagnoses increased significantly in the post-COVID-19 period (0.06 percentage points [95%CI 0.01, 0.11]). Findings point to an urgent need to improve screening and treatment pathways for perinatal individuals in…
Viewers of this webinar will learn about broadening the standard of care that addresses not only clinical and medical pregnancy issues but also behavioral health concerns like peripartum depression and suicide ideation. Viewers will learn how awareness and assessment of social and behavioral…
Black women are three to four times more likely to experience a pregnancy or childbirth-related death than White women. The health and well-being of women on their maternal journey – before, during and after childbirth are critical aspects of equitable health care.