One in seven in-hospital delivery stays for non-Hispanic White women included a diagnosis of a mental health disorder in 2020 (14 per 100 delivery stays), the highest rate among any race/ethnicity group. In-hospital delivery stays for Asian/Pacific Islander women included the lowest diagnosis rate, at just 3.6 per every 100 stays (Source: AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #302,

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• In 2020, White non-Hispanic women had the highest rate of delivery stays involving mental health disorders (14.0 per 100 delivery stays), and Asian/Pacific Islander non-Hispanic women had the lowest (3.6 per 100 delivery stays).
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• Between 2017 and 2020, the rate of delivery stays involving mental health disorders increased 52 percent, with the lowest rate of increase among Black non-Hispanic women (47 percent) and the highest rate of increase among other non-Hispanic race/ethnicity women (71 percent).
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• Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders were the most common type of mental health disorder among delivery stays in 2020, with the highest rate among White non-Hispanic women and the lowest rate among Asian/Pacific Islander non-Hispanic women (9.6 and 2.2 per 100 delivery stays, respectively).
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• The rate of delivery stays involving anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders increased 74 percent between 2017 and 2020.
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• Select obstetric risk factors were more common among delivery stays involving at least one mental health disorder than among delivery stays with no mental health disorders (79.1 vs. 62.5 per 100 delivery stays, respectively).

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