Field Tiffany, Diego Miguel, Hernandez-Reif Maria, Deeds Osvelia, Holder Vitillius, Schanberg Saul, Kuhn Cynthia
Touch Research Institutes, University of Miami Medical School, Miami, FL 33101, USA.
Infant Behav Dev. 2009 Jan;32(1):10-6. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.09.005. Epub 2008 Nov 11.
Pregnant black depressed women were compared to pregnant black non-depressed women on self-report stress measures and cortisol levels at mid and late pregnancy and on neonatal outcomes. The depressed women had higher anxiety, anger, daily hassles, sleep disturbance scores and cortisol levels at both prenatal visits. These higher stress levels may have contributed to the greater incidence of prematurity and low birthweight neonatal outcomes noted in the depressed group, and they may partially explain the higher rate of prematurity and low birthweight among black women.
研究人员将孕期患抑郁症的黑人女性与未患抑郁症的黑人孕妇进行了比较,比较内容包括自我报告的压力测量指标、孕中期和孕晚期的皮质醇水平以及新生儿结局。在两次产前检查中,患抑郁症的女性焦虑、愤怒、日常烦恼、睡眠障碍得分以及皮质醇水平均更高。这些更高的压力水平可能导致了抑郁症组中早产和低出生体重新生儿结局的发生率更高,这也可能部分解释了黑人女性早产和低出生体重发生率较高的原因。