Can reporting mood swings during oral contraceptive use predict peripartum depression? Results from the Swedish longitudinal cohort study Mom2B

Erietta Karaviti; Hanna Wierenga; Femke Geusens; Frida Gyllenberg; Fotios C Papadopoulos; Alkistis Skalkidou

doi:10.1192/j.eurpsy.2025.10135

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Can reporting mood swings during oral contraceptive use predict peripartum depression? Results from the Swedish longitudinal cohort study Mom2B

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2025

Fotios C Papadopoulos

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Alkistis Skalkidou

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Erietta Karaviti: Affiliation:
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Hanna Wierenga: Affiliation:
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Department of Sociology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Femke Geusens: Affiliation:
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden REALIFE research group, Department of Development and Regeneration (Cluster Woman and Child), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Frida Gyllenberg: Affiliation:
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
Fotios C Papadopoulos: Affiliation:
Department of Medical Sciences, Clinical Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Alkistis Skalkidou*: Affiliation:
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
*: *Correspondence: Alkistis Skalkidou, MD, PhD, Kvinnokliniken, Akademiska sjukhuset, Uppsala 75312 Sweden, alkistis.skalkidou@uu.se

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Oral contraceptives Mood swings Peripartum depression Postpartum

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Type: Research Article
Information: European Psychiatry , Accepted manuscript , pp. 1 - 24

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