Maternal Mental Health after a Wildfire: Effects of Social Support in the Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo Study

• Published in: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
• Main Authors: Verstraeten, Barbara S. E., Elgbeili, Guillaume, Hyde, Ashley, King, Suzanne, Olson, David M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2020
• Subjects: Original Research; Davidson; Fort McMurray; Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8320544/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33172310; https://doi.org/10.1177/0706743720970859

OBJECTIVE: Following disasters, perinatal women are vulnerable to developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-like symptoms. Little is known about protective factors. We hypothesized that peritraumatic stress would predict PTSD-like symptoms in pregnant and postpartum women and would be moderat...