Published in:
01-12-2015 | Short Communication
Health services utilization of women following a traumatic birth
Authors:
E. Turkstra, D. K. Creedy, J. Fenwick, A. Buist, P. A. Scuffham, J. Gamble
Published in:
Archives of Women's Mental Health
|
Issue 6/2015
Login to get access
Abstract
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.