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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth BioMed Central Research article Open Access Postpartum mental health after Hurricane Katrina: A cohort study 1 1 2 3 Emily W Harville* , Xu Xiong , Gabriella Pridjian , Karen Elkind-Hirsch and Pierre Buekens1 Address: 1Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA and 3Womans Hospital Research Institute, Baton Rouge, LA, USA Email: Emily W Harville* - eharvill@; Xu Xiong - xxiong@; Gabriella Pridjian - pridjian@; Karen Elkind- Hirsch - karen.elkind-hirsch@; Pierre Buekens - pbuekens@ * Corresponding author Published: 8 June 2009 Received: 8 February 2009 Accepted: 8 June 2009 BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2009, 9:21 doi:10.1186/1471-2393-9-21 This article is available from: /1471-2393/9/21 © 2009 Harville et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Natural disaster is often a cause of psychopathology, and women are vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. Depression is also common after a woman gives birth. However, no research has addressed postp