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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Maternal Mental Health in Post-Conflict Settings: Findings from Timor-Leste Wietse A. Tol, PhD [email protected] [email protected]

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Maternal Mental Health in Post-Conflict Settings: Findings from Timor-Leste

Wietse A. Tol, PhD

[email protected] [email protected]

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Lots of debate:• In post-conflict settings, which experiences are critical for mental health?

• Past conflict traumavs.

• Ongoing stressors

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Why focus on maternal mental health in post-conflict settings?

1. Important concern in its own right: in LMIC maternal depression 15.6% prenatal, 19.8% postnatal; depression 2nd largest contributor DALY in women aged 15-44)

2. Key risk factors highly present: poverty, intimate partner violence, lack social support, negative life events

3. Negative impact on children: suboptimal growth, diarrhea, febrile episodes, suboptimal breastfeeding and immunization

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Timor-Leste

• 1.2 million people• Low development: 147/

187 HDI (UNDP, 2011)

• 49.9% under poverty line

• 35% spousal physical/ sexual violence

• 33% children under 5 severely stunted; 15% severely underweight

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Timor-Leste Timeline

1600’s – 1975 Portuguese colony

1975 – 1999Indonesian occupation

- 200,000 killed- Human rights violations on large scale1999 referendum: 78% vote for independence from Indonesia; followed by large-scale violence;

destruction of infrastructure2006 violence

2008 assassination attempts

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Current studyIn preparation for birth cohort study

Objectives:

– Check recruitment methods– Feasibility/properties of

instruments in this specific group

– Initial exploration of cross-sectional relationships

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Current study2 districts; 8 suco’s (mix rural/urban)Sample recruitment through:

– 1. Visit chefe and health post– 2. Liaise with partner NGO (Safe Motherhood

Program) and SISCa volunteers– 3. Door-to-door

Aim to find all pregnant women and those with 4-5 month old infants

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Socio-demographic characteristics

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Which stressors?• Daily stressors (between 20% and 30%):

• no clean water• not enough money (school fees, clothes)• Lia

• Intimate partner violence (39% prenatal, 29% postnatal)

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Maternal Mental Health

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Relationships between adversity and maternal mental health

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PTSD symptoms

Perinatal Depression

Human Rights trauma

Witnessing murders

Extreme deprivations

PAST CONFLICT TRAUMATIC EVENTS

Intimate partner violence

INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE

Ongoing adversity

ONGOING ADVERSITY (DAILY STRESSORS)

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PTSD symptoms

Perinatal Depression

0.11

0.22

0.10

Human Rights trauma

Witnessing murders

Extreme deprivations

PAST CONFLICT TRAUMATIC EVENTS

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PTSD symptoms

Perinatal Depression

0.11

0.22

0.10

Human Rights trauma

Witnessing murders

Extreme deprivations

PAST CONFLICT TRAUMATIC EVENTS

Intimate partner violence

0.15

0.15

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Result #1

Traumatic events and IPV predict both PTSD and perinatal depression

conflict events and IPV should be taken into account for maternal mental health

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PTSD symptoms

Perinatal Depression

Ongoing adversity

0.26

0.12

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Result #2

Ongoing adversity predicts PTSD and depression

Treatment of symptoms alone will not be effective on the longer term if ongoing adversity is not addressed

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PTSD symptoms

Perinatal Depression

Ongoing adversity

0.26

0.12

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PTSD symptoms

Perinatal Depression

Human Rights trauma

Witnessing murders

Extreme deprivations

PAST CONFLICT TRAUMATIC EVENTS

Intimate partner violence

Ongoing adversity

0.26

0.12

0.13

0.15

0.13

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Result #3

Traumatic events predict both ongoing adversity and psychological symptoms

conflict events are carried over into the present (‘caravan of loss’)

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PTSD symptoms

Perinatal Depression

Human Rights trauma

Witnessing murders

Extreme deprivations

PAST CONFLICT TRAUMATIC EVENTS

Intimate partner violence

Ongoing adversity

0.26

0.12

0.13

0.15

0.13

0.40

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Result #4

PTSD is strongly related to depression

Need to think of maternal mental health beyond depression symptoms

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Coming back to beginning: which is more important?

Current debate over-simplifies: BOTH past traumatic events and ongoing adversity are important for post-conflict mental health

They influence each other in complex ways

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AcknowledgementsUniversity of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaDerrick Silove, MDSusan Rees, PhDNatalino TamLazaro Lelan Sila

The Alola Foundation, Dili, Timor-LesteTeresa Verdial

Universidade de Paz, Dili, Timor-LesteNelson Martins, MD, PhD

Funding: National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia

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MeasuresADVERSITY

Daily stressors Locally constructed

Domestic violence Based on WHO survey

Traumatic events Harvard Trauma Questionnaire

MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH & DISABILITY

Psychological distress Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) + additional items

.85

PTSD Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ)

.87

Anger Locally constructed .76

Perinatal depression Edinburg Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)

.81

Disability WHO Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 12-item

.89