Mobile app may predict depression in pregnant women

The problem of depression is often seen in pregnant women because during pregnancy, there are major chemical changes in the body of women in which hormones also play a major role. PTI According to , now through a mobile app it can be detected in advance whether a woman may go into depression in the last days of pregnancy or not. For this, researchers included pregnant women in a survey.

The survey included women who were in the early stages of pregnancy. This is also called the first trimester period. It starts even before pregnancy when it is the last day of menstrual cycle before conception. That means this phase actually starts even before the woman becomes pregnant. Researchers mentioned various risks related to pregnancy in the survey, which include factors like sleep quality and food insecurity. These later cause depression.

Tamar Krishnamurthy, the lead author of the research at the University of Pittsburgh in America, believes that through this research, by asking some questions to people, it can be found out whether they will suffer from depression or not. The author says that depression can occur due to the quality of a woman’s sleep, labor pain, worries about delivery, and insecurities about food.

But if it is known in advance through the mobile app that a woman may go into depression at a later stage, then measures can be taken to prevent it in advance. For this study, researchers surveyed 944 women who used this mobile app. There was no previous history of depression with these women. The accuracy of this model prepared by the researchers was found to be 93 percent.