title: Psychiatric disorders in obstetrics.
abstract: The incidence of serious psychiatric illness in 27,376 patients during pregnancy and the puerperium was one in 138 (0.7%). The puerperal-onset group comprised 64 of the 198 cases (32%) and, of these, 22% required admission to a psychiatric institution. Moreover, this group of patients had a recurrence rate of 45% in subsequent pregnancies. Clinical, ethnic and socioeconomic factors were analysed and compared with the same factors in a control group to seek significant associations that might indicate impending psychiatric disorders in obstetric patients.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D011644:Puerperal Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D014739:Victoria