Public Mental Health - Selected publications

2024: 

Horsch A, Garthus-Niegel S, Ayers S, Chandra P, Hartmann K, Vaisbuch E, Lalor J. Childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder: definition, risk factors, pathophysiology, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 03 March doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2023.09.089. Link to full text

Bergunde L, Karl M, Borrmeister M, Jaramillo I, Weise V, Mack JT, Weidner K, Gao W, Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Garthus-Niegel S. The effect of maternal childhood maltreatment on postpartum mother–child bonding and maternal hair glucocorticoids. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 04. March 2024 doi: 10.1080/20008066.2024.2317674. Link to full text 

Weise V, Güttner F, Staudt A, Mack JT, Garthus-Niegel S. Relationship satisfaction and family routines of young parents before and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent growth curve analysis. Plos One. 16. February 2024 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297740. Link to full text

Handelzalts JE, Kalfon-Hakhmigari M, Garthus-Niegel S. Work-family conflict: emphasis on families in modern work environments. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology. 12. January 2024 doi: 10.1080/02646838.20242303870. Link to full text 

Power C, Weise V, Mack JT, Karl M, Garthus-Niegel S. Does parental mental health mediate the association between parents’ perceived stress and parent-infant bonding during the early COVID-19 pandemic? Early Human Development. 05. January 2024 doi: 10.1016/J.earlhumdev.2023.105931. Link to full text

2023:

Seefeld L, Handelzalts JE, Horesh D, Horsch A, Ayers S, Dikmen-Yildiz P, Kömürcü Akik B, Garthus-Niegel S. Going through it together: Dyadic associations between parents’ birth experience, relationship satisfaction, and mental health. Journal of Affective Disorders. 26. December 2023 doi: 10.1016/j.ad.2023.12.044. Link to full text

Valla L, Haga SM, Gartus-Niegel S, Drozd P. Dropout or Drop-In Experiences in an Internet-Delivered Intervention to Prevent Depression and Enhance Subjective Well-Being During the Perinatal Period: Qualitative Study. JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting. 22. December 2023 doi: 10.2196/46982. Link to full text

Alderdice F, Ayers S, Batorowicz E, Caparros-Gonzalez RA, Carone N, Darwin Z, Fallon V, Gathus-Niegel S, Hayes L, Horsch A, Iles J, Lafarge C, Martin C, Nakic Rados S, Newham J, Power C, Redshaw M, Seefeld S, Sheen K, Worobey J. Reflections on a successful year of the Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology. 13. December 2023 doi: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2288447. Link to full text

Ayers S, Horsch A, Garthus-Niegel S,  Nieuwenhuijze M, Bogaerts A, Hartmann K, Karlsdottir SI, Oosterman M, Tecirli G, Turner JD, Lalor J. Traumatic birth and childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder: International expert consensus recommendations for practice, policy, and research. Women and Birth. 08. December 2023 doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2023.11.006. Link to full text

Engelhardt L, Mack J, Weise V, Kopp M, Romero Starke K, Garthus-Niegel S. The COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for work-privacy-conflict and parent–child-bonding in mothers and fathers. Children and Youth Services Review. December 2023 doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107264. Link to full text

Asselmann E, Garthus-Niegel S, Martini J. Editorial: How research on personality development can improve our understanding of perinatal adjustment. Journal of Reproductive and infant Psychology. 2023 doi: 0.1080/02646838.2023.2242148. Link to full text 

Bergunde L, Karl M, Schälicke S, Weise V, Mack JT, von Soest T, Gao W, Weidner K, Garthus-Niegel S, Steudte-Schmiedgen S. Childbirth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms – examining associations with hair endocannabinoid concentrations during pregnancy and lifetime trauma. Translational Psychiatry. 31. October 2023 doi: 10.1038/s41398-023-02610-3. Link to full text

Schellong J, Daniels J, Garthus-Niegel S. Editorial: Violent relationships: acute and long-term implications. Front. Psychiatry. 20. October 2023 doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1290094. Link to full text

Jaramillo I, Karl M, Bergunde L, Mack JT, Weise V, Weidner K, Gao W, Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Garthus-Niegel S. Maternal postpartum depressive symptoms: The predictive role of objective and subjective birth experience and hair glucocorticoids. Journal of Affective Disorders, 15. October 2023 doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.07.034. Link to full text

Mojahed A, Mack JT, Specht L, Sandoz V, Garthus-Niegel S. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic On Violence Against Children: A Narrative Review. Current Psychiatry Reports. 18. September 2023 doi: 10.1007/s11920-023-01449-1. Link to full text

Mack JT, Brunke L, Staudt A, Kopp M, Weise V, Garthus-Niegel, S. Changes in relationship satisfaction in the transition to parenthood among fathers. Plos One, 30. August 2023 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289049. Link to full text

Baumann S, Staudt A, Horesh D, Eberhard-Gran M, Garthus-Niegel S, Horsch A. Perineal tear and childbirth-related posttraumatic stress: A prospective cohort study. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2023;1–12. doi: 101111/acps.13595. Link to full text

Seefeld L, von Soest T, Dikmen-Yildiz P, Garthus-Niegel S. Dyadic analyses on the prospective association between birth experience and parent-child-bonding: The role of postpartum depression, anxiety, and childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23 July 2023 doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2023.102748 Link to full text

Lotzin A, Flechsenhar A, Garthus-Niegel S, Georg AK, Holl J, von Hülsen L, Kenntemich L, Kliem S, Kröger C, Mack JT, Mojahed A, Nunius S, Schröder J, Seitz K, von Thadden A, Volkert J, Zrnic Novakovic I, Lueger-Schuster B. Häusliche Gewalt und ihre psychischen Folgen während der COVID-19-Pandemie – Zentrale Befunde aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum. Bundesgesundheitsblatt. 10. July 2023 doi: 10.1007/s00103-023-03747-8. Link to full text  

Weigl T, Brunton R, Dryer R Garthus-Niegel S. Validation of the German version of the pregnancy-related anxiety scale (PrAS): psychometric properties across all trimesters of pregnancy. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 24 June 2023 doi: 10.1186/s12884-023-05787-z. Link to full text

Correia J, Debrot A, Garthus-Niegel S. Integrating positive psychology perspectives to support parents in their transition to parenthood: a vision for future research. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 08 June 2023 doi: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2212576. Link to full text

Garthus-Niegel S, Kittel-Schneider S. Väter und peripartale psychische Erkrankungen: Das übersehene Elternteil? Der Nervenarzt, 11. May 2023 doi: 10.1007/s00115-023-01508-1. Link to full text

Döblin S, Seefeld L, Weise V, Kopp M, Knappe S, Asselmann E, Martini J, Garthus-Biegel S. The impact of mode of delivery on parent-infant-bonding and the mediating role of birth experience: a comparison of mothers and fathers within the longitudinal cohort study DREAM. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 25 April 2023 doi: 10.1186/s12884-023-05611-8.Link to full text  

Kopp M, Lindauer M, Garthus-Niegel S. Association between maternal employment and the child´s mental health: a systematic review with meta-analysis. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 13 February 2023 doi: 10.1007/s00787-023-02164-1. Link to full text

Dobernecker J, Spyridou A, Elbert T, Schauer M, Garthus-Niegel S, Ruf-Leuschner M, Schalinski I. Cumulative trauma predicts hair cortisol concentrations and symptoms of depression and anxiety in pregnant women—an investigation of community samples from Greece, Spain and Perú. Scientific Reports, 25 January 2023 doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-28151-9 Link to full text

Garthus-Niegel S, Horsch A. The Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology and the Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology: Transitions and new beginnings. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 2023 January doi:10.1080/02646838.2022.2158538. Link to full text 

Koerber MI, Mack JT, Seefeld L, Kopp M, Weise V, Romero Starke K, Garthus-Niegel S. Psychosocial work stress and parent-child bonding during the COVID-19 pandemic: 
clarifying the role of parental symptoms of depression and aggressiveness. BMC Public Health, 2023 January doi:10.1186/s12889-022-14759-5. Link to full text

Staudt A, Baumann S, Horesh D, Eberhard-Gran M, Horsch A, Garthus-Niegel S. Predictors and comorbidity patterns of maternal birth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms: A Latent Class Analysis. Psychiatry Research, 2023 Jan doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.115038. Link to full text

Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Schälicke S, Bergunde L, Karl M, Weise V, Junge-Hoffmeister J, Schumacher S, von Soest T, Weidner K, Kirschbaum C, Garthus-Niegel S. Hair glucocorticoids during pregnancy in the context of trauma exposure and their predictive value for the development of childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2023 February. Link to full text

Karl M, Huth V, Schälicke S, Müller-Stark C, Weise V, Mack JT, Kirschbaum C, Weidner K, Garthus-Niegel S, Steudte-Schmiedgen S. The association between maternal symptoms of depression and hair glucocorticoids in infants across the perinatal period. Pychoneuroendocrinology, 2023 January. Link to full text 

2022:

Brym S, Mack J T, Weise V, Kopp M, Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Garthus-Niegel S. Mental health of working parents during the COVID-19 pandemic: can resilience buffer the impact of psychosocial work stress on depressive symptoms? BMC Public Health, 2022. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14582-y. Link to full text

Brantsaeter A L, Garthus-Niegel S, Brandlistuen R E, Caspersen I H, Meltzer H M, Hope Abel M. Mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency and symptoms of emotional distress
and depression in pregnancy and six months postpartum – Results from a
large pregnancy cohort. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2022 September 09. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2022.09.009 Link to full text

Blum S, Mack J T, Weise V, Kopp M, Asselmann E, Martini J, Garthus-Niegel S. The impact of postpartum obsessive-compulsive symptoms on child development and the mediating role of the parent-child relationship: A prospective longitudinal study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 August 16. doi:10.3389/ppsyt.2022.886347  Link to full text.

Bergunde L, Garthus-Niegel S, Alexander N, Steudte-Schmiedgen S. Perinatal mental health research: towards an integrative biopsychosocial approach. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 2022 July 21. doi: 10.1080/02646838.2022.2101781  Link to full text.

Martini J, Asselmann E, Weidner K, Knappe S, Rosendahl J, Garthus-Niegel S. Prospective Associations of Lifetime Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Birth-Related Traumatization With Maternal and Infant Outcomes. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 July 22. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.842410 Link to full text.

Sommer M, Knappe S, Garthus-Niegel S, Weidner K, Martini J. Die Bedeutung peripartaler mütterlicher Angst- und depressiver Störungen für die frühkindliche Entwicklung. Kindheit und Entwicklung, 2022 July 19. doi: 10.1026/0942-5403/a000382 Link to full text

Sommer M, Knappe S, Garthus-Niegel S, Weidner K, Martini J. Die Bedeutung peripartaler mütterlicher Angst- und depressiver Störungen für die frühkindliche Entwicklung. Hogrefe, Juli 2022 doi:10.1026/0942-5403/a000382 Link to full text.

Garthus-Niegel S, Nakić Radoš S, Horsch A. Perinatal Depression and Beyond—Implications for Research Design and Clinical Management. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 June 24 doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.18978 Link to full text.

Frohberg J, Bittner A, Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Junge-Hoffmeister J, Garthus-Niegel S, Weidner K Early Abusive Relationships–Influence of Different Maltreatment Types on Postpartum Psychopathology and Mother-Infant Bonding in a Clinical Sample. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 May 30 doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.836368 Link to full text.

Heyne C-S, Kazmierczak M, Souday R, Horesh D, Lambregtse-van den Berg M, Weigl T, Horsch A, Oosterman M, Dikmen-Yildiz P, Garthus-Niegel S. Prevalence and risk factors of birth-related posttraumatic stress among parents: A comparative systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 2022 Jun. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2022.102157 Link to full text.

Seefeld L, Mojahed A, Thiel F, Schellong J, Garthus-Niegel S. Preferences and Barriers to Counseling for and Treatment of Intimate Partner Violence, Depression, Anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Postpartum Women: Study Protocol of the Cross-Sectional Study INVITE. Front Psychiatry, 2022 Mar 29. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.836350.  Link to full text.

Prospective associations between prepartum physical activity, birth experience, and maternal depressive symptoms in the postpartum period: Insights from the population-based DREAM cohort study. J Affect Disord, 2021; 297:366-374. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.10.060. Link to abstract.

Knappe S, Petzoldt J, Garthus-Niegel S, Wittich J, Puls H-C, Huttarsch I and Martini J. Associations of Partnership Quality and Father-to-Child Attachment During the Peripartum Period. A Prospective-Longitudinal Study in Expectant Fathers. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021; 12:572755. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.572755. Link to full text.

Deforges C, Stuijfzand S, Noël Y, Robertson M, Breines Simonsen T, Eberhard-Gran M, Garthus-Niegel S, Horsch A. The relationship between early administration of morphine or nitrous oxide gas and PTSD symptom development. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2021; 281, 557–566. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.12.051. Link to full text.

Thiel F, Eberhard-Gran M, Garthus-Niegel S. The Impact of Perinatal Life Stress on Infant Temperament and Child Development: A 2-Year Follow-Up Cohort Study. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 2020; Publish Ahead of Print. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000887. Link to abstract.

Karl M, Schaber R, Kress V, Kopp M, Martini J, Weidner K, Garthus-Niegel S. Precarious working conditions and psychosocial work stress act as a risk factor for symptoms of postpartum depression during maternity leave: Results from a longitudinal cohort study. BMC Public Health 2020; 20(1):1505. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-09573-w. Link to full text.

Lailach S, Langanke T, Zahnert T, Garthus-Niegel S, Neudert M. Impact of depressive disorders on quality of life after middle ear surgery in patients with chronic otitis media. European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology 2020. doi: 10.1007/s00405-020-06397-7. Link to full text.

Adler I, Weidner K, Eberhard-Gran M, Garthus-Niegel S. The Impact of Maternal Symptoms of Perinatal Insomnia on Social-emotional Child Development: A Population-based, 2-year Follow-up Study. Behavioral Sleep Medicine 2020; 1–15. doi: 10.1080/15402002.2020.1746661. Link to full text.

Garthus-Niegel S, Horsch A, von Soest T, Haga SM, Drozd F, Ayers S, Eberhard-Gran M. Posttraumatic stress symptoms following childbirth: Associations with prenatal attachment in subsequent pregnancies. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 2020; 23(4):547–555. doi: 10.1007/s00737-019-01011-0. Link to full text.

Haga SM, Kinser P, Wentzel-Larsen T, Lisøy C, Garthus-Niegel S, Slinning K, Drozd F. Mamma Mia – A randomized controlled trial of an internet intervention to enhance subjective well-being in perinatal women. The Journal of Positive Psychology 2020; 1–9. doi: 10.1080/17439760.2020.1738535. Link to full text.

Martini J, Beesdo-Baum K, Garthus-Niegel S, Wittchen HU. The course of panic disorder during the peripartum period and the risk for adverse child development: A prospective-longitudinal study. Journal of Affective Disorders 2020; 266:722–730. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.01.018. Link to abstract.

Mojahed A, Alaidarous N, Shabta H, Hegewald J, Garthus-Niegel S. Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the Arab Countries: A Systematic Review of Risk Factors. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 2020; 152483802095309. doi: 10.1177/1524838020953099. Link to abstract.

Rataj E, Garthus-Niegel, S. Auswirkungen extremer Wetterereignisse auf die psychische Gesundheit – eine Erörterung von Effekten im Globalen Süden. Public Health Forum 2020; 28(1):65–67. doi: 10.1515/pubhef-2019-0108. Link to full text.

Romero Starke K, Hegewald J, Schulz A, Garthus-Niegel S, Nübling M, Wild PS, Arnold N, Latza U, Jankowia S, Liebers F, Rossnagel K, Riechmann-Wolf M, Letzel S, Beutel M, Pfeiffer N, Lackner K, Münzel T, Seidler A. Cardiovascular health outcomes of mobbing at work: Results of the population-based, five-year follow-up of the Gutenberg health study. Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2020; 15(1):15. doi: 10.1186/s12995-020-00266-z. Link to full text.

Schaber R, Karl M, Kopp M, Kress V, Weidner K, Martini J, Garthus-Niegel S. My job, my child, my house: The predictive value of job- and housework-related factors on depressive symptoms during the postpartum period. Journal of Affective Disorders 2020; 272:388–397. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.04.016. Link to abstract.

Stuijfzand S, Garthus-Niegel S, Horsch A. Parental Birth-Related PTSD Symptoms and Bonding in the Early Postpartum Period: A Prospective Population-Based Cohort Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry 2020; 11:570727. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.570727. Link to full text.

Thiel F, Iffland L, Drozd F, Haga SM, Martini J, Weidner K, Eberhard-Gran M, Garthus-Niegel S. Specific relations of dimensional anxiety and manifest anxiety disorders during pregnancy with difficult early infant temperament: A longitudinal cohort study. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 2020; 23(4):535–546. doi: 10.1007/s00737-019-01015-w. Link to full text.

Weidner K, Bittner A, Beutel M, Goeckenjan M, Brähler E, Garthus-Niegel S. The role of stress and self-efficacy in somatic and psychological symptoms during the climacteric period – Is there a specific association? Maturitas 2020; 136:1–6. doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.03.004. Link to abstract.

Garthus-Niegel S, Horsch A, von Soest T, Haga SM, Drozd F, Ayers S, Eberhard-Gran M. Posttraumatic stress symptoms following childbirth: associations with prenatal attachment in subsequent pregnancies. Archives of Women's Mental Health 2019. doi: 10.1007/s00737-019-01011-0. Link to full text.

Horsch A, Garthus-Niegel S. Posttraumatic stress disorder following childbirth in Childbirth in Vulnerability and Law: Exploring Issues of Violence and Control (edited by Camilla Pickles and Jonathan Herring). Routledge, 2019.

Kjeldgaard HK, Vikanes Å, Benth JŠ, Junge C, Garthus-Niegel S, Eberhard-Gran M. The association between the degree of nausea in pregnancy and subsequent posttraumatic stress. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 2019; 22(4), 493–501. doi: 10.1007/s00737-018-0909-z. Link to full text.

Kress V, Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Kopp M, Förster A, Altus C, Schier C, Wimberger P, Kirschbaum C, von Soest T, Weidner K, Junge-Hoffmeister J, Garthus-Niegel S. The Impact of Parental Role Distributions, Work Participation, and Stress Factors on Family Health-Related Outcomes: Study Protocol of the Prospective Multi-Method Cohort “Dresden Study on Parenting, Work, and Mental Health” (DREAM). Frontiers in Psychology 2019; 10:1273. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01273. Link to full text.

Pogarell A, Garthus-Niegel S, Mojahed A, von Verschuer C, Rokyta U, Kummer W, Schellong J. Community Case Study on Trauma-Specific Treatment and Counseling for Refugee Women Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence. Frontiers in Psychiatry 2019; 10:891. doi. 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00891. Link to full text.

Polte C, Junge C, von Soest T, Seidler A, Eberhard-Gran M, Garthus-Niegel S. Impact of Maternal Perinatal Anxiety on Social-Emotional Development of 2-Year-Olds, A Prospective Study of Norwegian Mothers and Their Offspring: The Impact of Perinatal Anxiety on Child Development. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2019; 23(3), 386–396. doi: 10.1007/s10995-018-2684-x. Link to full text.

Preis H, Benyamini Y, Eberhard-Gran M, Garthus-Niegel S. Childbirth preferences and related fears - comparison between Norway and Israel. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2018; 18:362. doi: 10.1186/s12884-018-1997-5. Link to full text.

Garthus-Niegel S, Horsch A, Handtke E, von Soest T, Weidner K, Eberhard-Gran M. The impact of postpartum posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms on couples’ relationship satisfaction: a population-based prospective study. Frontiers in Psychology 2018; 9:1728. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01728. Link to full text.

Cavazzana A, Röhrborn A, Garthus-Niegel S, Larsson M, Hummel T, Croy I. Sensory-specific impairment among older people. An investigation using both objective and subjective measures across the five senses. PLOS ONE 2018; 13(8): e0202969. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202969. Link to full text.

Martini J, Knappe S, Garthus-Niegel S, Hoyer J. Psychische Störungen in den reproduktiven Phasen der Frau: Häufigkeiten, Verlauf und Besonderheiten. Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr 2016; 84(7):432-49. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-110838.  Link to full text.