Perceived stress may mediate the relationship between antenatal depressive symptoms and preterm birth: A pilot observational cohort study

• Sharifa Lalani ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sharifa Lalani, Aliyah Dosani, Ntonghanwah Forcheh, Shahirose Sadrudin Premji

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Aliyah Dosani ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sharifa Lalani, Aliyah Dosani, Ntonghanwah Forcheh, Shahirose Sadrudin Premji

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: adosani@mtroyal.ca

  Affiliations School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6817-3571

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• Ntonghanwah Forcheh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sharifa Lalani, Aliyah Dosani, Ntonghanwah Forcheh, Shahirose Sadrudin Premji

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing York, University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-5072

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• Shahirose Sadrudin Premji ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sharifa Lalani, Aliyah Dosani, Ntonghanwah Forcheh, Shahirose Sadrudin Premji

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing York, University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0323-8009

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• Sana Siddiqui ,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Kiran Shaikh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Ayesha Mian,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Ilona S. Yim,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

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• the Maternal-infant Global Health Team (MiGHT) Collaborators in Research

  ¶Membership of the Maternal-infant Global Health Team is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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