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Perinatal Engagement With a Purpose-Built AI for Mental Health (Ash): Emotional Expression, Help-Seeking, and Estimated Depression Trajectories Across Pregnancy and Postpartum

2026-06-04

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<p>Objective: Perinatal mood disorders are common and consequential yet underdiagnosed and undertreated. Conversational AI mental health tools may help close this gap, but real-world evidence on how perinatal individuals engage with them remains limited. We aimed to characterize naturalistic engagement with a purpose-built mental health AI tool (Ash) across the perinatal period, using a theory-informed emotion tax...

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Literature Corpus work: 377abce2-41bc-5552-a47d-272de99cc38a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/we6zf_v2

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