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Puerperal Mental Illness: Comparisons with Non-Puerperal Controls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Cornelius L. E. Katona
Cornelius L. E. Katona*
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Registrar, Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge
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Summary

A sample of patients with puerperal mental illness requiring hospital admission were diagnosed retrospectively according to the criteria of DSM III. Comparisons were made with controls matched for diagnosis on a number of features of past history, symptoms, management and outcome. Puerperal illness was associated with more frequent puerperal and less frequent non-puerperal previous admissions, more frequent delusions and greater use of ECT.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 141 , Issue 5 , November 1982 , pp. 447 - 452
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1982 

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