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Perinatal depression screening among sexual minority women

JAMA Psychiatry

Peer-Reviewed Publication

JAMA Network

About The Study: The findings of this study suggest that, although sexual minority women are at high risk of postpartum depression, their sexual identities are largely undocumented in medical records, highlighting the need for strategies to measure sexual orientation that can reliably capture this information.

Authors: Leiszle Lapping-Carr, Ph.D., of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, is the corresponding author.

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(10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.2619)

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