Electronic Supplementary Material 1. Search strategy.

PubMed was searched using the keywords: (refugee women OR immigrant women OR asylum seeker women OR migrant women OR female immigrants OR female refugees OR female asylum seekers) OR the MeSH (medical subject heading) terms: (“Refugees” [MAJRi] OR “Emigrants and Immigrants” [MAJR]) AND (“women” [MAJR] OR “female” [MAJR] OR “pregnant women” [MAJR]) AND keywords: (postnatal depression OR PND OR postpartum depression OR PPD OR post* depress* OR maternal depression OR maternal anxiety OR puerperal depression) OR (“Depression, postpartum” [MeSH:exp]ii).

MEDLINE was searched using keywords: (refugee women OR immigrant women OR asylum seeker women OR migrant women OR female immigrants OR female refugees OR female asylum seekers) OR MeSH terms: (*“refugees”iii OR *“Emigration and Immigration” OR *“Transients and Migrants”) AND keywords: (postnatal depression OR PND OR postpartum depression OR PPD OR post* depress* OR maternal depression OR maternal anxiety OR puerperal depression) OR MeSH term: (“Depression, postpartum” [MeSH:exp]).

PsycINFO, Academic Search Premier, CINAHL Plus, POPLINE, Web of Science, IBSS, EMBASE and Global Health were all searched in a similar manner with advanced searches using the following strategy: keyword terms: (refugee women OR immigrant women OR asylum seeker women OR migrant women OR female immigrants OR female refugees OR female asylum seekers) AND keyword terms: ( postnatal depression OR PND OR postpartum depression OR PPD OR post* depress* OR maternal depression OR maternal anxiety OR puerperal depression).

Article Title:

Refugee, asylum seeker, immigrant women and postnatal depression: rates and risk factors.

Authors: Catherine Collins, Cathy Zimmerman, Louise Howard

Journal: Archives of Women’s Mental Health

Corresponding Author

Name: Catherine Collins

Address: Newcastle Reproductive Health Research Team

4th Floor Leazes Wing, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Richardson Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP.

Tel: 0191 2820042 e-mail:

i.[MAJR] is a major term within MeSH.

ii.[MeSH:exp] is a term exploded to include all the terms below that term in the MeSH tree.

iii.* “refugees” is a focus on the term refugees.