Mother-Baby Day Hospitals: An Effective Option for Perinatal Mental Health Care?

Catarina P. Desport; Liliana C. Castro

doi:10.20344/amp.23236

Mother-Baby Day Hospitals: An Effective Option for Perinatal Mental Health Care?

Authors

Catarina P. Desport Mental Health Department. Hospital de Magalhães Lemos. Unidade Local de Saúde de Santo António. Porto. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4148-0974
Liliana C. Castro Mental Health Department. Hospital de Magalhães Lemos. Unidade Local de Saúde de Santo António. Porto. & Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS). Universidade do Porto. Porto. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2121-1475

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20344/amp.23236

Keywords:

Hospitals, Mental Health, Mother-Child Relations/psychology, Mothers/psychology, Postpartum Period

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Gelabert E, Torres Giménez A, Andrés-Perpiñá S, Naranjo C, Roda E, Garcia-Esteve L, et al. Mother-baby day hospital (MBDH): preliminary results of effectiveness of multidisciplinary intensive intervention for women with postpartum affective/anxiety disorder. Eur Psychiatry. 2022;65:S331.

Roca-Lecumberri A, Torres A, Andrés S, Naranjo C, Roda E, Lopez C, et al. New units for perinatal mental health disorders: description of the first 150 dyads attended at mother baby day hospital CLINIC-BCN. Span J Psychiatry Ment Health. 2024;17:41-5.

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2025-10-01

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P. Desport C, C. Castro L. Mother-Baby Day Hospitals: An Effective Option for Perinatal Mental Health Care?. Acta Med Port [Internet]. 2025 Oct. 1 [cited 2025 Dec. 7];38(10):669-. Available from: https://actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/23236

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Vol. 38 No. 10 (2025): October

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