Mothering Here and Mothering There: International Migration and Postbirth Mental Health

Table 2

Mental health outcomes of DC and non-DC mothers.

	All migrants			Asylum-seeker/refugee subgroup
	Dual-country mothers; 𝑁=92	Non-dual-country mothers; 𝑁=422	𝑃 value	Dual-country mothers; 𝑁=77	Non-dual-country mothers; 𝑁=215	𝑃 value
Risk for postpartum depression (PPD) (score ≥ 10 on the Edinburgh Postnatal depression scale)
1-week postpartum, %	25.3^a	23.4^b	.710	26.3^a	24.9^c	.805
4-month postpartum, %	28.3	18.6	.036	29.9	20.0	.076
Anxiety related to trauma at 4 months (measured by Hopkins Symptom Checklist, part I), %	16.5^a	9.4^d	.046	18.4^a	15.2^b	.507
Clinical depression symptomatology (measured by Hopkins Symptom Checklist, part II), %	23.1^a	13.5^d	.021	26.3^a	17.5^b	.100
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomology at 4 months (measured by Harvard Trauma Questionnaire), %	7.0^a	3.8^e	.157	9.2^a	5.7^b	.289

^aMissing data on one woman.
^bMissing data on four women.
^cMissing data on two women.
^dMissing data on six women.
^eMissing data on five women.