Prenatal depression was high in our sample of young low-income mothers, with about half of the young mothers reporting a clinical level of depressive symptoms. This finding is consistent with previous literature findings in which prenatal and postnatal depressive symptoms were elevated in community samples of young, minority, and low socioeconomic status mothers, who were perhaps 11 times more likely than mothers without such risk factors to have depressive symptoms (Goyal et al., 2010 and Ko et al., 2012). In the present sample, composed mostly of first-time parents, mothers were mostly likely to report clinical levels of depressive symptoms during pregnancy, with a slow decrease in the proportion with elevated symptoms across the two years postpartum, indicating that the late prenatal period is a particularly vulnerable time for the young mothers for depressive feelings (for more detail on the depression trajectory from the same population, see Reference omitted for blind review).
Prenatal depression was high in our sample of young low-income mothers, with about half of the young mothers reporting a clinical level of depressive symptoms. This finding is consistent with previous literature findings in which prenatal and postnatal depressive symptoms were elevated in community samples of young, minority, and low socioeconomic status mothers, who were perhaps 11 times more likely than mothers without such risk factors to have depressive symptoms (Goyal et al., 2010 and Ko et al., 2012). In the present sample, composed mostly of first-time parents, mothers were mostly likely to report clinical levels of depressive symptoms during pregnancy, with a slow decrease in the proportion with elevated symptoms across the two years postpartum, indicating that the late prenatal period is a particularly vulnerable time for the young mothers for depressive feelings (for more detail on the depression trajectory from the same population, see Reference omitted for blind review).
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