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The first 12 months of a perinatal outreach service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Meena Patel ,
Jona Lewin  and
Ann Stevens
Ann Stevens
Affiliation:
Park Royal Centre for Mental Health, Central Middlesex Hospital Acton Lane, London NW10 7NS
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Abstract

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Aims and method

This paper describes and evaluates a new community treatment service for women suffering from mental Illness during the perinatal period. Data about referrals, treatment methods and outcome were analysed for the first year of Its service.

Results

The service was acceptable to patients and effective in improving the mental health and parenting skills of mothers but less successful in improving relationship problems.

Clinical implications

A specialised perinatal outreach service is likely to be more acceptable to new mothers than the traditional psychiatric service and may also be able to reduce the need for hospital admission and length of admission.

Type
Original Papers
Information
Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 23 , Issue 11: The Journal of Trends in Psychiatric Practice , November 1999 , pp. 665 - 667
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright
Copyright © 1999 Royal College of Psychiatrists

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