Perinatal Wellbeing Research Team

PSAS Study Update! We are excited to announce that the PSAS study is 2/3rds of the way through our postpartum portion! That means over 200 women who participant in the Pregnancy Specific Anxiety Scale Study have also completed the 4-Month Postpartum Follow-Up Survey. Many thank-yous to all of our participants and their babies, we couldn't do it without you!... *Please note that any comments or shares of our posts are not anonymous and maybe seen by other Facebook users*

Study Reminder! The Perinatal Wellbeing Research Team led by Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour is conducting a study to collect preliminary data on cannabis use during pregnancy and its links with newborn development. For more information about the Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Early Developmental Outcomes (PreCeeDo) Study and to participate/share participation information, visit www.midwifery.ubc.ca/preceedo

STUDY ALERT! (CANADA-WIDE) Were you pregnant in Canada in the last 10 years? Did you feel respected and listened to in your interactions with care providers? Researchers at Birth Place Lab want to hear your story! Visit https://www.birthplacelab.org/respcct/ to complete the survey.

There is some uncertainty as to what links exist between cannabis use and poor birth outcomes and child development. The Perinatal Wellbeing Research Team led by Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour is conducting a study to collect preliminary data on cannabis use during pregnancy and its links with newborn’ development. Any pregnant person, aged 19 years or older, with a BC Services Card or CareCare, and who plans to deliver in BC Women’s hospital is eligible to participate! For more information about the Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Early Developmental Outcomes (PreCeeDo) Study and to participate/share participation information, visit www.midwifery.ubc.ca/preceedo

The Perinatal Wellbeing Research Team is excited to introduce three new Research Assistants that have joined our team! A very warm welcome to Aayza Asim, Emily Tsui and Francis Macapobre. We are really looking forward to working with you! To learn more about our team members and the studies we're currently working on, check out our team page at: https://midwifery.ubc.ca/research/psas/meet-our-team/

The PSAS Team would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our Research Assistant, Mary Bunka, for all of her work on the PSAS Study this past year and a half. Mary joined our team in February of 2019 and since that time has been a caring, thoughtful and hard-working team member. This September, Mary will be joining UBC’s School of Population and Public Health as a Research Assistant with the Pharmacogenetics for Depression project. We are so excited for her and the next steps she is taking, and we are going to miss her very much!

Are you interested in women's health research but unsure where to find participation opportunities? BC Women's Hospital posts actively-recruiting studies! Here are a few examples: Healthy Pregnancy Research: http://www.bcwomens.ca//research-at-bc-womens/research-and Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Research: http://www.bcwomens.ca//research-and-you/pelvic-pain-endom... Learn more about research at BC Women's: http://www.bcwomens.ca/our-research/research-at-bc-womens

Study Alert! Check out these studies from other BC researchers! Moms and Moms-to-Be: Researchers at SmartMom Canada are conducting focus groups to hear your thoughts and ideas on information about pregnancy that is most important to you, how you like to receive that information, and your interest in a SmartMom app. The discussion will take 45-60 minutes and all participants receive a $25 gift card. If you are interested in participating, you can fill out this form: https://fo...rms.gle/rD2HMDo7GSuHmqzr9 Questions? Email Emma Martin at [email protected] All New Parents: Researchers at SmartMom Canada want to know what new parents want to learn about parenting a baby in the first year of life. Join them for a one-hour discussion and receive a $25 gift card. If you are interested, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/Mj4rXH1ZGcEd387H7 Questions? Please email Emma Martin at [email protected]

Did you know there's a postpartum portion to the PSAS Study? All of our participants are followed up with at 4 months postpartum, and today we reached yet another milestone! 100 of our 4-Month Follow-Up Surveys have been completed. We're a third of the way through the postpartum portion!... Thank you everyone for your support and thank you to our team for all their hard work.

What is the risk of relapse of depression during pregnancy after discontinuation of antidepressants? Our team conducted a systematic review of evidence to answer this question. Read the full article here: https://www.psychiatrist.com//article/Pages/2020/v81/19r13

The PSAS Team would like to thank our Research Associate, Dr. Sukhpreet Tamana for all of her hard work this past year as part of our study team. We are so excited to announce that Dr. Tamana will be starting a new position as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, supervised by Dr. Ryan Allen and Dr. Lawrence McCandless. She will be working as part of the UGAAR team, and her research will focus on how prenatal stress and air pollution exposure during pregnancy influences infant health and developmental trajectories. Thank you Sukhpreet, we wish you all the best and we will miss you!

The Perinatal Wellbeing Research Team is very excited to announce that we have completed the pregnancy portion of the PSAS Study! Below is a photo that was taken at one of our recent team meetings. In clockwise order from top left: Ianna Folkes (Research Assistant)... Mary Bunka (Research Assistant) Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour (Principal Investigator) Dr. Sukhpreet Tamana (Research Associate) We would like to thank everyone that shared our study, supported it, mentioned it to their friends and family and specially those who participated! As the postpartum portion of our study continues we will have more updates coming soon, so stay in touch! *Please note that any comments or shares of our posts are not anonymous and maybe seen by other Facebook users*

We did it! We've just completed our 301st interview! More thank-yous to come!We did it! We've just completed our 301st interview! More thank-yous to come!

Our team wants to wish all of you a Happy (belated) Mother's Day! If you are currently pregnant and want to be involved in our research on pregnancy-specific anxiety, we would love to have you! Anyone that is pregnant, over 19 and has a BC Care Card/Services Card can participate and receive a $30 Starbucks gift card as a thank you for completing the study.... www.midwifery.ubc.ca/psas *Please note that any comments or shares of our posts are not anonymous and maybe seen by other Facebook users*

We're almost there! We've interviewed 290 pregnant British Columbians for the PSAS Study! We are so close to our goal of 300 but need your help to get there! Please help us spread the word about our study by sharing one of our posts! Don't forget - we're on twitter and instagram, too! Instagram: perinatalwellbeingteam Twitter: @pwbt_midwifery... Online: midwifery.ubc.ca/psas *Please note that any comments or shares of our posts are not anonymous and maybe seen by other Facebook users*