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Psychological and social correlates of the onset of affective disorders among pregnant women1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

T. Kitamura ,
S. Shima ,
M. Sugawara  and
M. A. Toda
T. Kitamura*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Mental Health, Tokyo Metropolitan University and Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, Japan
S. Shima
Affiliation:
National Institute of Mental Health, Tokyo Metropolitan University and Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, Japan
M. Sugawara
Affiliation:
National Institute of Mental Health, Tokyo Metropolitan University and Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, Japan
M. A. Toda
Affiliation:
National Institute of Mental Health, Tokyo Metropolitan University and Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, Japan
*
2Address for correspondence: Dr T. Kitamura, National Institute of Mental Health, 1–7–3 Konodai, Ichikawa, Chiba 272, Japan.
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Synopsis

One hundred and twenty women recruited from attenders at the antenatal clinic of the Obstetrics Department of a general hospital were asked to complete ad hoc questionnaires during pregnancy; they were then interviewed by psychiatrists using a structured diagnostic interview, the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS). Nineteen (16%) women were identified as having an onset of an affective disorder during the period of pregnancy, mainly (68%) during the first trimester. As compared with the women without any such onset (controls), the women with pregnancy-related affective disorder (PRAD) were characterized by (1) it being their first pregnancy or first delivery with past termination of pregnancy, (2) early loss of either parent by death, (3) high Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) Neuroticism (N) and Psychoticism (P) scores, (4) living in a flat with either a plan to stay there after the forthcoming childbirth or an expectation that their accommodation would be crowded, and (5) negative response to the news of the pregnancy by the husband with low intimacy. The effects of these factors were additive since the probability of developing a PRAD episode was highly correlated with the number of factors reported.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , November 1993 , pp. 967 - 975
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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A summary of this paper was presented at the 6th International Conference of the Marcé Society, Edinburgh, 4 September 1992.

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