Women’s health-related functioning and its association with non-severe maternal morbidities during the perinatal period: an observational longitudinal study
Sulin Dong, Chanya Zhang, Meiyi Chen, Xiaojiao Wang, Shangni Lan, Liping Sun, Xu Qian, Chunyi Gu · 2025
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How well a woman functions in daily life around childbirth depends on more than whether delivery went safely. Sulin Dong and co-authors follow that functioning in a 2025 longitudinal study at a large women's hospital in urban China. Six hundred twenty-four women were assessed in late pregnancy and again six weeks after birth with a standard questionnaire.
Functioning scores ran higher in late pregnancy than after birth, yet the share with severe impairment fell, from about twenty-one percent to eleven. Before birth, impairment tracked with heavy physical symptoms, anxiety, and mild depression. After birth, forceps delivery joined the list of linked factors. The authors argue that milder, non-severe health problems, often overlooked next to emergencies, shape how mothers actually live through this period.
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| CREATOR | Sulin Dong, Chanya Zhang, Meiyi Chen, Xiaojiao Wang, Shangni Lan, Liping Sun, Xu Qian, Chunyi Gu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |