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Last published 2025
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Jessica L. Coker

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10 h-index 32 pubs 352 cited

  • Humans
  • Female
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications
  • Adult
  • Postpartum Period
  • Opioid-Related Disorders
  • Substance-Related Disorders
  • Buprenorphine
  • Patient Reported Outcome Measures
  • Young Adult
  • Analgesics, Opioid
  • COVID-19
  • Suicide
  • United States

Biography and Research Information

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Jessica L. Coker's research focuses on maternal health, particularly during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Her work investigates the use of medication-assisted treatment, such as buprenorphine, for opioid use disorder in pregnant individuals, examining factors associated with treatment adherence and postpartum retention. Coker also studies maternal mental health, including anxiety and depression, and their potential impacts on newborn brain development. She has developed and validated assessment tools for maternal postpartum depression and anxiety, utilizing patient-reported outcome measures. Her scholarship includes a systematic review of outcome measures for postpartum anxiety and an analysis of self-harm rating scales in postpartum women. Coker has published 32 papers, with an h-index of 10 and 349 citations, and collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Metrics

  • h-index: 10
  • Publications: 32
  • Citations: 352

Selected Publications

  • Impact of substance use and trauma on postpartum readmission rates and hospitalization costs: An observational study (2025)
    International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Peripartum substance use and punitive laws: an update (2025)
    Archives of Women s Mental Health 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • High Rates of Probable Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in an Acute Psychiatric Women’s Inpatient Unit: An Opportunity to Improve Diagnosis and Direct Critical Efforts (2025)
    Journal of Trauma & Dissociation 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • 122 Association between partner factors on continued substance use among pregnant people with opioid use disorder (2024)
    American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology DOI OpenAlex
  • The forgotten: Increasing awareness of late maternal deaths (2023)
    International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics DOI OpenAlex
  • A systematic review of patient–reported outcome measures used in maternal postpartum anxiety (2023)
    American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM 13 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Time to pay attention: an underrecognized casualty of the opioid epidemic (2023)
    Archives of Women s Mental Health 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Detection of differential depressive symptom patterns in a cohort of perinatal women: an exploratory factor analysis using a robust statistics approach (2023)
    EClinicalMedicine 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Systematic Review of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures to Screen for Maternal Postpartum Anxiety (2022)
    SSRN Electronic Journal 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Psychiatric participation in US Maternal Mortality Review Committees (2022)
    The Lancet Psychiatry 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Assessment of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Maternal Postpartum Depression Using the Consensus-Based Standards for the Selection of Health Measurement Instruments Guideline (2022)
    JAMA Network Open 54 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Cannabis Use is Associated with Depressive Symptoms Among Pregnant Women Receiving Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder (2022)
  • Postpartum psychosis and SARS-CoV-2 infection: is there a correlation? (2021)
    Archives of Women s Mental Health 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Clearance of buprenorphine during pregnancy and neonatal outcomes (2021)
    Archives of Women s Mental Health 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Peripartum management for women with opioid dependence (2021)
    Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology 4 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Grants & Funding

As listed on this researcher's institutional profile.

  • 3/5 HEAL Consortium: Establishing Innovative Approaches for the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study NIH/NIDA
  • No FP attached (Funded by: UAMS Intramural Grant (CTSA))
  • Studying the effect of Buprenorphine on Fetal Brain Development Using Magnetoencephalography - Continuation Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
  • 1/6 HBCD Prenatal Experiences and Longitudinal Development (PRELUDE) Consortium NIH
  • Early Care Decisions and the Risk of Long-Term Opioid Use in Patients with Low Back Pain (Funded by: UAMS Intramural Grant (CTSA))

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