Depressive Symptomatology in Pregnancy - a Singaporean Perspective

Overview

Journal Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

Specialties Psychiatry
Public Health
Social Sciences

Date 2004 Dec 8

PMID 15583905

Citations 17

Authors

H Chen

Y H Chan 3rd

K H Tan

T Lee

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Abstract

This is a two-part study looking at depressive symptomatology in pregnancy in Singaporean women, and the associated demographic, and bio-psychosocial characteristics of women at risk of depressive illness. We validated the 10-item Centre for Epidemiological Studies-Depression scale amongst pregnant women, and then used this tool to identify depressive states in an antenatal cohort from the national maternity hospital. Amongst the sample population, the rate of depressive disorders is as high as one in five in the antepartum. The risk factors in the antepartum include being young, history of smoking, having past and current obstetric complications, frequent alcohol use and having medical problems.

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