Laura E. Sockol
Davidson College
19 Papers
21 Citations
Laura E. Sockol is an academic researcher from Davidson College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anxiety & Postpartum depression. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 17 publications. Previous affiliations of Laura E. Sockol include Williams College & Brown University.
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Papers
A systematic review of the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy for treating and preventing perinatal depression.
TL;DR: There is strong evidence that CBT interventions are effective for treating and preventing depression during the perinatal period and further methodologically rigorous studies are needed to further investigate potential moderators of treatment efficacy.
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A meta-analysis of treatments for perinatal depression.
TL;DR: Interventions including an interpersonal therapy component were found to have greater effect sizes, compared to control conditions, than interventions including a cognitive-behavioral component.
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Preventing postpartum depression: a meta-analytic review.
TL;DR: It is suggested that interventions designed to prevent postpartum depression effectively reduce levels of post partum depressive symptoms and decrease risk for postpartums depressive episodes.
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Mind the Gap: The Underrepresentation of Female Participants and Authors in Virtual Reality Research
TL;DR: Evidence of significant underrepresentation of women as both participants and authors in human-subject experiments in the Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality Conferences from 2015-2019 is found and methodological recommendations for mitigating bias in future VR research are provided.
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Elevated risk of adverse obstetric outcomes in pregnant women with depression
Deborah R. Kim,Laura E. Sockol,Mary D. Sammel,Caroline Kelly,Marian Moseley,C. Neill Epperson +5 more
TL;DR: A retrospective cohort study of 261 pregnant African–American women screened with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale found an EPDS score ≥10 was associated with increased risk for preeclampsia, preterm birth, and low birth weight, but after controlling for behavioral risk factors this association was no longer significant.