Pregnant women today are more susceptible to depression and anxiety than the older generation

The level of increased depression in young mothers today is related to changes in job roles and the feeling of not achieving success in personal or personal aspirations due to the impact of childbirth. .

According to a recent study by scientists at Bristol University in the UK, today's young women tend to be 51% more depressed and anxious than their predecessors.

The study focused on comparing the levels of depression and mental health of pregnant mothers during the 1990s and present period. The comparison results will highlight differences between generations.

Young women today tend to be more depressed and anxious than previous generations of mothers.

In the first study, the scientists collected feedback from 2,390 women and compared them with their 180 daughters who became pregnant from the age of 24 in the period 2012-2016. The results showed that 25% of pregnant women before the age of 24 in today's time have higher symptoms of depression than 17% of older women.

If the mother is depressed during pregnancy, the likelihood of their daughter becoming pregnant later becomes three times higher than the others.

The authors found that the cause of this unusual change may be that women today are busy and have to do more work than they did 25 years ago. Besides, psychology of concern about pregnancy affecting personal life makes more women more anxious. Depression in pregnancy is very important, because it will have a significant impact on the health of both mother and child.

Dr. Rebecca Pearson, a mental epidemiologist who shares with Independent page: "Depression manifests itself through a series of problems such as feeling overwhelmed, unable to sleep, always rotating. In the beginning and stress, the female labor force has increased many times over the past 25 years and there are two factors related to mental health of women, that is, aspirations and ambitions. Pregnancy will make it difficult to achieve what they want ".

The cause of this unusual change may be because women today are much busier than before.

Physical, mental impact when working during pregnancy or financial pressure, living costs also contribute to the mood of modern women become more and more abnormal. Pearson said the findings point to things that modern women are going through, stress and anxiety.

This is the first time scientists have compared mental health symptoms during pregnancy over generations. They believe that the new discovery will mark the beginning of a wave of health and social policy studies.

The research has been published on the recent JAMA Open Network website.