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01-12-2019 | Letter to the Editor

Pregnancy: a final frontier in mental health research

Authors: Jodi Pawluski, Molly Dickens

Published in: Archives of Women's Mental Health | Issue 6/2019

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This spring, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the USA made further allowances for the participation of pregnant women in research. Up until recently, pregnant women were in a specially protected class for human research subjects because they were considered “vulnerable to coercion.” Leaving pregnancy out of research is not limited to drug trials, however. Even at the funding level, women’s health during this critical stage of a woman’s life is an overlooked area of research: 2017 is the earliest year listed for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) classification of funding dedicated to pregnancy or maternal health categories. …

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Title: Pregnancy: a final frontier in mental health research
Authors: Jodi Pawluski
Molly Dickens
Publication date: 01-12-2019
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Published in: Archives of Women's Mental Health / Issue 6/2019
Print ISSN: 1434-1816
Electronic ISSN: 1435-1102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-019-00988-y

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