Increased Psychological Distress in Post-partum, Cocaine-using Mothers

Overview

Journal J Subst Abuse

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 1995 Jan 1

PMID 7580227

Citations 27

Authors

L Singer

R Arendt

S Minnes

K Farkas

T Yamashita

R Kliegman

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Abstract

This study investigated psychological symptoms, self-reported postpartum by poor, primarily African American women who used cocaine during pregnancy. Ninety-nine cocaine-using mothers (COC+) were compared to 44 noncocaine-using mothers (COC-) on standardized measures of psychological distress and verbal comprehension. Mothers were interviewed to determined extent of drug involvement. COC+ mothers reported using alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco at two to three times the rate of comparison mothers during pregnancy and reported earlier initiation of marijuana use. COC+ women were more likely to admit to interpersonal difficulties and to report phobic anxiety and paranoid ideational symptoms. The COC+ group was also more likely to have clinically elevated scores on subscales indicating feelings of personal inadequacy, phobic anxiety, and paranoia. The use of cocaine, in combination with either alcohol or marijuana, was the best predictor of psychoticism, hostility, and total number of distress symptoms.

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