Justin Lavin

TL;DR: A sample of 192 financially impoverished, inner-city women was assessed for clinical depression twice during pregnancy and once postpartum, finding Particularly heightened risk for antepartum depression was found among single women who did not have a cohabiting partner.

TL;DR: The results indicated that self-esteem and social support did not have additional stress-buffering effects over and above their direct effects on depression, and African American women did not differ from European American women terms of depression or in terms of how they were impacted by stress or psychosocial resources.

TL;DR: In this article, conservation of resources (COR) theory was applied to assess the impact of resource losses and gains that occur in women's lives and concluded that women's resource losses would better predict postpartum anger and depression than their resource gains.

TL;DR: The prevalence of thromboembolic events among women for whom extended bed rest is prescribed as part of the treatment of premature labor or preterm premature rupture of membranes is significantly increased with respect to that among gravid women who do not receive this therapy and is substantially higher than previously reported.

TL;DR: The AIDS-prevention group produced moderate, consistent increases in knowledge and safer sex behaviors in comparison with either the health-promotion or no-intervention group.