MOMs Partnership: Mental Health Outreach for MotherS, New Haven CT stress assessment

A detailed assessment used after Hurricane Sandy to assess levels and areas of stress for a research project in 2010

The following factors placed mothers at high risk for poor outcomes for themselves and their children (ranked in order by 1,112 mothers interviewed by the MOMS Partnership™):

• poverty, not specifically defined by mothers as lack of money, but rather defined as tangible, basic needs related to parenting—diapers, food, child care, clothing, and unstable housing;
• social isolation; and
• high levels of maternal mental illness or “stress,” defined by mothers to include psychiatric symptoms and actual depressive, anxiety and addictive disorders.

https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/moms/research/index.aspx#page3