We are happy to announce that the ATLAS project team has recently published a paper on suicide during the perinatal period in JAMA Network Open! This paper uses a mixed-methods approach to examine circumstances associated with suicide mortality among women in the perinatal period (i.e., pregnant at time of death or pregnant within a year before death). Overall, our findings highlight that mental health, substance use, and intimate partner problems are key precipitating circumstances for suicides among pregnant and postpartum women. We also conducted a detailed qualitative analysis that provides further context to these findings, including that additional factors such as postpartum depression, miscarriage, and abortion were salient experiences for these women.

We are very excited to share this work with a broader audience! This analysis was also highlighted in a recent news article by the UM Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, which you can read here.