6
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: not found
      • Article: not found

      A Population-Based Study of Postpartum Mental Health Service Use by Immigrant Women in Ontario, Canada

      1 , 2 , 3 , 1 , 2 , 1 , 1 , 3
      The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
      SAGE Publications

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisherPMC
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          <div class="section"> <a class="named-anchor" id="d6374200e157"> <!-- named anchor --> </a> <h5 class="section-title" id="d6374200e158">Objective:</h5> <p id="d6374200e160">Postpartum mental disorders are twice as common among immigrant women compared to nonimmigrant women in developed countries. Immigrant women may experience barriers to access and use of postpartum mental health services, but little is known about their service use on a population level. We described postpartum mental health service use of immigrant mothers living in Ontario, Canada, comparing to a referent group of mothers who were either born in Canada or had lived in Ontario or another Canadian province since 1985. </p> </div><div class="section"> <a class="named-anchor" id="d6374200e162"> <!-- named anchor --> </a> <h5 class="section-title" id="d6374200e163">Method:</h5> <p id="d6374200e165">Among all women in Ontario, Canada, delivering a live infant from 2008 to 2012 ( <i>n</i> = 450,622), we described mental health service use within 1 year postpartum, including mental health physician visits, psychiatric emergency department visits, and psychiatric hospitalization. Adjusted odds ratios (aORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) comparing immigrant women to the referent group were adjusted for maternal age, parity, income, rurality, mental health services in prior 2 years, and maternal and newborn health. </p> </div><div class="section"> <a class="named-anchor" id="d6374200e170"> <!-- named anchor --> </a> <h5 class="section-title" id="d6374200e171">Results:</h5> <p id="d6374200e173">Immigrant women ( <i>n</i> = 123,231; 27%) were less likely to use mental health services than women in the referent group (14.1% vs. 21.4%; aOR, 0.59; 95% CI, 0.58 to 0.61), including for physician-based (13.9% vs. 21.1%; aOR, 0.59; 95% CI, 0.58 to 0.61) and emergency department (0.6% vs. 1.3%; aOR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.57 to 0.68) services. Hospitalization risk was lower among immigrants (0.20% vs. 0.33%) but became similar after covariate adjustment (aOR, 0.92; 95% CI, 0.79 to 1.06). </p> </div><div class="section"> <a class="named-anchor" id="d6374200e178"> <!-- named anchor --> </a> <h5 class="section-title" id="d6374200e179">Conclusions:</h5> <p id="d6374200e181">Underuse of postpartum mental health services may be contributing to the high burden of postpartum mental disorders among immigrant women. </p> </div><div class="section"> <a class="named-anchor" id="d6374200e185"> <!-- named anchor --> </a>Objectif: <p id="d6374200e188">Les troubles mentaux du postpartum sont deux fois plus communs chez les femmes immigrantes comparativement aux femmes non-immigrantes des pays développés. Les femmes immigrantes peuvent se heurter à des obstacles à l’accès aux services de santé mentale pour le postpartum et à leur utilisation, mais nous en savons peu sur leur utilisation des services au niveau de la population. Nous avons décrit l’utilisation des services de santé mentale pour le postpartum des mères immigrantes habitant en Ontario, Canada, en les comparant à un groupe de référence de mères nées au Canada ou qui habitaient en Ontario ou dans une autre province canadienne depuis 1985. </p> </div><div class="section"> <a class="named-anchor" id="d6374200e190"> <!-- named anchor --> </a>Méthode: <p id="d6374200e193">Parmi toutes les femmes de l’Ontario qui ont accouché d’un enfant vivant de 2008 à 2012 ( <i>n</i> = 450 622), nous avons décrit l’utilisation des services de santé mentale durant 1 an de postpartum, y compris les visites au médecin de santé mentale, les visites au service d’urgence psychiatrique, et les hospitalisations psychiatriques. Les rapports de cotes ont été corrigés (RCc) ainsi que les intervalles de confiance à 95 % (IC) comparant les femmes immigrantes au groupe de référence pour l’âge maternel, la parité, le revenu, la ruralité, les services de santé mentale des 2 années précédentes, la santé maternelle et celle du nouveau-né. </p> </div><div class="section"> <a class="named-anchor" id="d6374200e198"> <!-- named anchor --> </a>Résultats: <p id="d6374200e201">Les femmes immigrantes ( <i>n</i> = 123 231; 27 %) étaient moins susceptibles d’utiliser les services de santé mentale que les femmes du groupe de référence (14,1 % c. 21,4 %; RCc 0,59; IC à 95 % 0,58 à 0,61), y compris les services d’un médecin (13,9 % c. 21,1 %; RCc 0,59; IC à 95 % 0,58 à 0,61) et le service d’urgence (0,6 % c. 1,3 %; RCc 0,63; IC à 95 % 0,57 à 0,68). Le risque d’hospitalisation était plus faible chez les immigrantes (0,20 % c. 0,33 %), mais est devenu semblable après l’ajustement de covariance (RCc 0,92; IC à 95 % 0,79 à 1,06). </p> </div><div class="section"> <a class="named-anchor" id="d6374200e206"> <!-- named anchor --> </a>Conclusions: <p id="d6374200e209">La sous-utilisation des services de santé mentale pour le postpartum peut contribuer au fardeau élevé des troubles de santé mentale du postpartum chez les femmes immigrantes. </p> </div>

          Related collections

          Most cited references36

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: found
          • Article: not found

          Prevalence and risk factors for postpartum depression among women with preterm and low-birth-weight infants: a systematic review.

          Although much is known about the risk factors for postpartum depression (PPD), the role of giving birth to a preterm or low-birth-weight infant has not been reviewed systematically. To review systematically the prevalence and risk factors for PPD among women with preterm infants. Medline, CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycINFO and the Cochrane Library were searched from their start dates to August 2008 using keywords relevant to depression and prematurity. Peer-reviewed articles were eligible for inclusion if a standardised assessment of depression was administered between delivery and 52 weeks postpartum to mothers of preterm infants. Data on either the prevalence of PPD or mean depression score in the target population and available comparison groups were extracted from the 26 articles included in the review. Risk factors for PPD were also extracted where reported. The rates of PPD were as high as 40% in the early postpartum period among women with premature infants. Sustained depression was associated with earlier gestational age, lower birth weight, ongoing infant illness/disability and perceived lack of social support. The main limitation was that most studies failed to consider depression in pregnancy as a confounding variable. Mothers of preterm infants are at higher risk of depression than mothers of term infants in the immediate postpartum period, with continued risk throughout the first postpartum year for mothers of very-low-birth-weight infants. Targeted clinical interventions to identify and prevent PPD in this vulnerable obstetric population are warranted.
            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: found
            • Article: not found

            Using administrative data to measure ambulatory mental health service provision in primary care.

            We sought to determine the accuracy of administrative data for identifying mental health service provision in primary care. This was a chart abstraction study measuring agreement between billing data and clinical data on the binary variable "mental health visit." Data were collected from the charts and billing records of 5 academic family practice clinics in Toronto, Ontario (1999 to 2000). Billing claims (n = 952) were selected from the billings for all visits by a stratified random sampling technique. A blinded data abstractor reviewed the clinical charts and assigned diagnostic codes for each patient visit associated with the selected claims. Any visit with at least 1 abstracted mental health diagnostic code was defined as a mental health visit. The test characteristics of 4 administrative measures of mental health service provision, based on different combinations of billing codes, were calculated. The accuracy of the administrative data was 86.8% when compared with clinical data. The sensitivity of the 4 administrative measures ranged from 22.3% to 80.7%. The specificity ranged from 97.0% to 99.5%. This is the first study to establish the performance of administrative data in measuring mental health service provision in a primary care setting. In our setting, broadly defined administrative measures of mental health have excellent specificity and adequate sensitivity for exploring and understanding mental health service utilization.
              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: found
              • Article: not found

              Limited English proficiency as a barrier to mental health service use: a study of Latino and Asian immigrants with psychiatric disorders.

              Language barriers pose problems in mental health care for foreign-born individuals in the United States. Immigrants with psychiatric disorders may be at particular risk but are currently understudied. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of limited English proficiency (LEP) on mental health service use among immigrant adults with psychiatric disorders. Drawn from the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS), Latino and Asian immigrant adults aged 18-86 with any instrument-determined mood, anxiety, and substance use disorder (n = 372) were included in the present analysis. Results from hierarchical logistic regression analyses showed that having health insurance, poor self-rated mental health, and more psychiatric disorders were independently associated with higher probability of mental health service use in the Latino group. After controlling for all background characteristics and mental health need factors, LEP significantly decreased odds of mental health service use among Latino immigrants. None of the factors including LEP predicted mental health service use among Asian immigrants, who were also the least likely to access such services. LEP was a barrier to mental health service use among Latino immigrants with psychiatric disorders. This study suggests that future approaches to interventions might be well advised to include not only enhancing the availability of bilingual service providers and interpretation services but also increasing awareness of such options for at least Latino immigrants. In addition, further investigation is needed to identify factors that can enhance access to mental health care services among Asians. Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Journal
                The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
                Can J Psychiatry
                SAGE Publications
                0706-7437
                1497-0015
                October 13 2016
                November 2016
                July 09 2016
                November 2016
                : 61
                : 11
                : 705-713
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario
                [2 ]Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
                [3 ]University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
                Article
                10.1177/0706743716645285
                5066549
                27310236
                5dd99cb5-bc05-4a8d-9b86-06043788f37b
                © 2016

                http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license

                History

                Comments

                Comment on this article