President of Toccalife.com (Ticker Symbol: TLIF), was intrigued by this article, “Postpartum mental health problems has always been a true concern for me. The research in the below article is great. Yet, no matter how you look at the research, it says the control in their experiments is based on drug use or woman in general. I like to break things down to basic factors. That is the source to answers. This research told me someone is trying something. I advocate all efforts. However, it reminded me that living a proper lifestyle or code, can overcome so many problems. There are 3 sober homes LESS for women, then there are for men. A sober home isn’t the stereotype suggested. I love this industry because everyone needs to learn an old fashioned lifestyle that makes sense to keep a clear mind. And I mean everyone.
I don’t think we need to do research on women, I think we need to provide for them better so they don’t fall into the stigma of fault and make their plight recognized as a plight for the current society. I think everyone needs to step back and learn from their elders as this epidemic, as another is moving in, may define social use or self medication as suicide. The game has changed. Everyone should be able to take a chance on themselves without a societal stigma attached to it. We should all focus on the creation of America’s abuse on drugs as opposed to stereotyping any type of affliction. The mind works in mysterious ways. Basic values and family support can usually lead to great results because we all need to be accepted by someone without worry. Please read the article below and share your thoughts.”
New research from North Carolina State University and the University of British Columbia finds that a woman’s lifetime history of drug use can help predict whether the woman will suffer from problems with stress and anxiety after childbirth. The finding could help health-care providers screen pregnant women for mental health problems and provide relevant treatment.
“There’s been a lot of attention recently on the need to incorporate mental health screening into prenatal care, and it has largely focused on identifying women who are at risk of postpartum depression,” says Sarah Desmarais, an associate professor of psychology at NC State and co-author of a journal article on the work.
“Our study has two important findings that are relevant to that discussion,” Desmarais says. “First, we found that women are at risk of significant postpartum mental health problems other than depression – stress and anxiety are serious issues that merit attention. Second, by incorporating questions about a woman’s history of drug use, we can help health-care providers more accurately identify women who are at risk of postpartum stress and anxiety – and take steps to provide the necessary care.”
The study was not designed to focus specifically on drug use, but was instead aimed at answering the broader question of whether women’s use of alcohol and drugs at any point in their lifetime predicted mental health challenges after childbirth.
“Historically, a lot of research focused on women’s substance use during pregnancy,” Desmarais says. “We thought that may not be a reliable way of capturing women’s substance use, because women are likely less willing to admit to substance use during pregnancy – they’re concerned about losing parental custody, dealing with social stigma, or biasing their treatment and care. What’s more, pregnancy is not when women begin using drugs or alcohol; that’s something that carries over from a woman’s behavior before pregnancy.”
To examine these issues, researchers used data from interviews with 100 women in British Columbia who had given birth in the previous three months, were largely from higher socioeconomic backgrounds and were not considered at high risk of postpartum mental health problems. The study participants were recruited to join a broad health and wellness study, which was not specifically focused on substance use.
In those interviews, women were asked about their history of alcohol use and their history of drug abuse.
“The key finding is that asking about lifetime drug use really helped us predict whether a woman would experience postpartum mental health problems,” Desmarais says.
“The best predictor of postpartum mental health problems is still whether a woman has a history of mental health problems,” Desmarais adds. “But when you include a history of drug use, the likelihood increases significantly.”
Specifically, prior drug use was associated with heightened symptoms of stress and anxiety after childbirth. Drug use was not associated with postpartum depression, and prior alcohol use was not associated with any postpartum mental health problems.
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The paper, “Lifetime substance use as a predictor of postpartum mental health,” is published in the journal Archives of Women’s Mental Health. Lead author of the study is Betty-Shannon Prevatt, a Ph.D. student at NC State. The paper was co-authored by Patricia Janssen of UBC. The work was done with support from the British Columbia Mental Health and Addictions Research Network, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
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