Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane
1:30 pm
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
I thank the witness for her paper and her attendance. It has been very interesting. Not a day goes by without committee members learning something. On page 4 of Professor O'Keane's paper it is stated that pregnancy is associated with increases in anxiety and depressive symptoms and is the highest risk period in a woman's life for depression. That claim is referenced and it is a published work but is it the commonly held view? Is there any deviation from that view?
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