Jessica L. Coker

Researcher

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

faculty

jlcoker@uams.edu

10 h-index 34 pubs 352 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Jessica L. Coker's research focuses on maternal and perinatal health, with a particular emphasis on mental health outcomes and substance use disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period. She has investigated patient-reported outcome measures for postpartum depression and anxiety, contributing to the development and validation of instruments like the Stanford Obstetric Recovery Checklist (STORK). Her work also addresses the impact of the opioid epidemic on maternal populations and explores potential correlations between postpartum psychosis and SARS-CoV-2 infection. Coker has published on differential depressive symptom patterns in perinatal women and the role of psychiatric participation in US Maternal Mortality Review Committees. Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 9, with 34 total publications and 343 citations. She has collaborated with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Lindsay Ellis Blake, Everett F. Magann, Jarna R Shah, and Michael Mancino.

Metrics

  • h-index: 10
  • Publications: 34
  • Citations: 352

Selected Publications

  • Impact of substance use and trauma on postpartum readmission rates and hospitalization costs: An observational study (2025)
  • Peripartum substance use and punitive laws: an update (2025)
  • 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)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • 122 Association between partner factors on continued substance use among pregnant people with opioid use disorder (2024)
  • The forgotten: Increasing awareness of late maternal deaths (2023)
  • A systematic review of patient–reported outcome measures used in maternal postpartum anxiety (2023)
    12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Time to pay attention: an underrecognized casualty of the opioid epidemic (2023)
    6 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)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Systematic Review of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures to Screen for Maternal Postpartum Anxiety (2022)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Psychiatric participation in US Maternal Mortality Review Committees (2022)
    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)
    47 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)
    9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Clearance of buprenorphine during pregnancy and neonatal outcomes (2021)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Peripartum management for women with opioid dependence (2021)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex

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