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Study Finds Depression More Common During Pregnancy Than After Childbirth.

Women's Health Weekly

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2001 AUG 23 - (NewsRx Network) -- Depression during pregnancy is more common than postnatal depression, finds a study in the August 2, 2001, issue of the British Medical Journal.

As mood during pregnancy may affect the unborn child, more efforts need to be directed towards recognizing and treating antenatal depression, report the authors.

Over 9,000 pregnant women recorded their mood through pregnancy and after childbirth in a series of questionnaires. Any reported symptoms of depression were measured against a recognized depression scale.

Depression scores were higher during pregnancy than after childbirth, with a peak at 32 weeks of pregnancy and a lowest value eight months after childbirth, report Jonathan Evans and colleagues at the University of Bristol, U.K. The severity and ...

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