A5045973346- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Family Support in Illness
- Menstrual Health and Disorders
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Pregnancy-related medical research
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Pregnancy and Medication Impact
University of Pennsylvania
2014-2025
University of Pennsylvania Health System
2024-2025
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2024-2025
Lifespan
2024-2025
California University of Pennsylvania
2021-2023
Philadelphia University
2018
Washington University in St. Louis
2016-2017
Penn Center for AIDS Research
2014-2017
Drexel University
2008-2012
Philadelphia VA Medical Center
2012
Acute stress during pregnancy can have adverse effects on maternal health and increase the risk for postpartum depression impaired mother-infant bonding. The COVID-19 pandemic represents an acute environmental stressor which it is possible to explore resilience factors that contribute outcomes. To investigate prenatal as predictors of bonding, this study recruited a diverse cohort 833 pregnant women from urban medical center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, assessed them once early phase...
The intersection of endemic structural racism and the global health crisis secondary to COVID-19 pandemic represents a syndemic, defined as aggregation 2 or more epidemic conditions leading adverse repercussions for health. Long-standing inequities have placed Black individuals at disproportionate risk negative postpartum mental outcomes. Studies are urgently needed understand how has added this (eg, syndemic associations).To examine association between birthing individuals.A longitudinal...
Hypoparathyroidism is characterized by hypocalcemia, hyperphosphatemia, and absent or markedly reduced serum levels of intact PTH. The transcription factor GCM2 critical for the development parathyroid glands in mice humans.We sought to determine prevalence gene mutations patients with familial sporadic forms isolated hypoparathyroidism (IH).We used PCR analyze promoter, exons, flanking intronic sequences 10 IH families 17 affected members IH. Wild-type mutant proteins were expressed HEK293...
Introduction: Elevating Voices, Addressing Depression, Toxic Stress and Equity (EleVATE) is a group prenatal care (GC) model designed to improve pregnancy outcomes promote health equity for Black birthing people. This article outlines the foundational community-engaged process develop EleVATE GC pilot study results. Methods: We used community-based participatory research principles Ferguson Commission Report guide creation of GC. The intervention, by people, centers trauma-informed care,...
Abstract Social communication difficulties are a transdiagnostic risk factor for psychopathology. However, few studies have examined prospective social in young children within an ecological systems framework. Our sample was 251 parent–child dyads assessed during pregnancy, postpartum, and toddlerhood (child ages 1 2). We leveraged observer ratings of child behavior, parent-reported questionnaires, geocoded data. factors at 2, including the level (gestational age), family (household income,...
To determine whether fall-related hip fracture, alone or in the presence of Fear Falling, is likely to induce PTSD an elderly population.A longitudinal prospective study patients admitted for fracture.Eight St. Louis, Missouri, area hospitals.Individuals aged 60 and older surgical fracture repair after a fall (N = 456).Rates partial full posttraumatic stress disorder (pPTSD fPTSD) were compared with rates FoF. FoF assessed 4 12 weeks surgery. Baseline characteristics including depression,...
Abstract Background The mechanisms by which parental early life stress can be transmitted to the next generation, in some cases a sex-specific manner, are unclear. Maternal preconception may increase susceptibility suboptimal health outcomes via utero programming of fetal hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis. Methods We recruited healthy pregnant women ( N = 147), dichotomized into low (0 or 1) and high (2+) adverse childhood experience (ACE) groups based on ACE Questionnaire, test...
Subsyndromal posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is highly prevalent in Veterans Affairs Medical Centers' primary-care clinics and associated with significant impairment. We used a cross-sectional design to examine PTSD symptoms depressive disorders endorsed by two cohorts of meeting less than full criteria who presented primary care at the Philadelphia VA Center (i.e., those from Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi New Dawn (OEF/OIF/OND) non-OEF/OIF/OND Veterans). The Behavioral...