Pandemic, racism linked to postpartum anxiety, depression in Black mothers

The COVID-19 pandemic, in combination with systemic racism in the U.S., is associated with elevated levels of postpartum anxiety and depression among Black mothers, researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry.
Wanjiku F. M. Njoroge, MD, the medical director of the Young Child Clinic and program director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues reported the effects of a “syndemic,” which is defined as the aggregation of two or more endemic and epidemic conditions.
Njoroge and colleagues followed up with a total of 151

The COVID-19 pandemic, in combination with systemic racism in the U.S., is associated with elevated levels of postpartum anxiety and depression among Black mothers, researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry.
Wanjiku F. M. Njoroge, MD, the medical director of the Young Child Clinic and program director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues reported the effects of a “syndemic,” which is defined as the aggregation of two or more endemic and epidemic conditions.
Njoroge and colleagues followed up with a total of 151