Women with a history of concussion were 25% more likely to have a serious mental illness in the years after childbirth than those without a history of concussion.
A history of concussion can have serious long-term mental health implications for women, even years after giving birth, according to a new study.
“I played a lot of sports growing up, and I definitely would not have thought about how a concussion could affect childbearing or parenting,” author Samantha Krueger, RM, MSc, told“Birthing people, and women in general, are an often-overlooked population in the scientific literature on traumatic brain injury, including concussion. There is a potential interplay between concussion history and the challenges of being a new parent that make this an important population to study,” said Krueger.
Overall, 11.3% of the women with a predelivery history of concussion developed severe maternal mental illness compared with 6.8% of the women without a predelivery history of concussion . Healthcare providers, including maternity care providers, should be asking about concussion history and providing mental health screening and supports to clients and their families to detect mental illness before a serious outcome occurs, Krueger added.
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