Erschienen in:
09.07.2019 | Letter to the Editor
Pregnancy: a final frontier in mental health research
verfasst von:
Jodi Pawluski, Molly Dickens
Erschienen in:
Archives of Women's Mental Health
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Ausgabe 6/2019
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Excerpt
This spring, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the USA made further allowances for the participation of pregnant women in research. Up until recently, pregnant women were in a specially protected class for human research subjects because they were considered “vulnerable to coercion.” Leaving pregnancy out of research is not limited to drug trials, however. Even at the funding level, women’s health during this critical stage of a woman’s life is an overlooked area of research: 2017 is the earliest year listed for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) classification of funding dedicated to pregnancy or maternal health categories. …