PPV Communication in Pregnancy: Mental Health Questions During the First Visit in Pregnancy

Overview

This project evaluated the significance of mental health conversations during pregnancy. According to Ahrens et. al (2023), women who have prenatal depression become more likely to develop postpartum depression. This creates the need for providers to be ab le to diagnose and treat mental health issues both before and after the baby is born (Ghahremani et al. 2022). This study was conducted using data from the study, Talking to Pregnant Patients (Chang et al. 2017). The questions being raised are as follows: Were the number of questions on the first visit different by race? Did a present third party affect their openness about mental health? Does the year of a resident matter? Do advanced practice providers’ questions asked differ from resident medical doctors (MD) and doctors of osteopathic medicine (DO)? These questions were analyzed using the transcripts provided from the Talking to Pregnant Patients study. The hypotheses were based on literature research and were that race would not affect the questions, a third party would affect the questions, the year of training in residence would affect the questions, and advanced practice providers would ask more questions than the doctors. Through a Fisher -Exact test, it was found that black patients were significant ly less likely to be asked about their mental health than white patients. This accepted part of the hypothesis and rejected the other parts.

Competition history

• JSHS 2025 Category not listed

Resources

• National JSHS abstract book ↗

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