Health services utilization of women following a traumatic birth

作者：Turkstra E^*; Creedy D K; Fenwick J; Buist A; Scuffham P A; Gamble J

来源：Archives of Women's Mental Health, 2015, 18(6): 829-832.

DOI：10.1007/s00737-014-0495-7

• Health-related quality of life
• Health-care utilization
• Childbirth trauma
• Mental health
• Distress

This cohort study compared 262 women with high childbirth distress to 138 non-distressed women. At 12 months, high distress women had lower health-related quality of life compared to non-distressed women (EuroQol five-dimensional (EQ-5D) scale 0.90 vs. 0.93, p = 0.008), more visits to general practitioners (3.5 vs. 2.6, p = 0.002) and utilized more additional services (e.g. maternal health clinics), with no differences for infants. Childbirth distress has lasting adverse health effects for mothers and increases health-care utilization.

• 出版日期2015-12