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Maternity Blues

III. Associations with Obstetric, Psychological, and Psychiatric Factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Helen Kennerley ,
Dennis Gath  and
Susan Iles
Helen Kennerley
Affiliation:
Warneford Hospital, Oxford
Dennis Gath*
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Susan Iles
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford
*
∗ Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX
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Abstract

One hundred and six women were assessed psychiatrically in the 14–16th and 36–38th weeks of pregnancy and the 12th week after childbirth. They also completed a maternity blues questionnaire daily in the ten days after delivery. Blues scores were significantly associated with: neuroticism; anxiety and depressed mood during pregnancy; fear of labour; poor social adjustment; and retrospective severity of pre-menstrual tension. Blues scores were not associated with obstetric factors, with previous history of psychiatric disorder, or with case status on the PSE in pregnancy or 12 weeks after delivery.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 367 - 373
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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