Feb. 16, 2026 | AHS Staff
In the last decade in the U.S., the highest rates of postpartum depression were among racial and ethnic minority women.
(Photo by Fred Zwicky / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
A woman’s risk of developing postpartum depression is influenced by several pain-related factors before and after childbirth, including poor pain management, their prenatal mental health and the quality of patient-provider communication, researchers at the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign say.
Health and Kinesiology Associate Professor Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo and her co-authors, graduate students Sudhamshi Beeram and Melany E. Romero, spoke to the Illinois News Bureau’s Sharita Forrest to share the findings of their analysis of postpartum literature: they identified seven interrelated risk factors of postpartum depression in racial and ethnic minority women.
Read the full story on the News Bureau website.
Editor’s note:
To reach Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo, email laracini@illinois.edu.
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