Differentiating Depressive Symptoms From Side Effects in Individuals With Major Depressive Disorder With Postpartum Onset
These findings underscore the importance of reviewing somatic symptoms before administering medication to discern true treatment emergent side effects, especially in populations recovering from labor and delivery. Somatic symptoms decline in parallel with depressive symptom scores during treatment, suggesting they are indicative of underlying illness rather than side effects.
Authors
- Amy Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4763-7741)
- Dorothy Sit (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8837-3343)
- Catherine S. Stika (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7186-1877)
- Katherine L. Wisner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3458-5986)
- Carmen Pulido (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-5886)
- Ifeanyi S. Walson
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- George Washington University Hospital (US)
- Children's National (US)
- Bioanalytica (Switzerland) (CH)
- Path BioAnalytics (United States) (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
- Published
- 2024-12-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/jcp.0000000000001928
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.63