Stress and puerperal psychosis.
Eighty-eight in-patients admitted to a psychiatric mother-and-baby unit and 80 randomly selected recently delivered women in the general population were interviewed using the LEDS. Only five of 33 patients (15%) with puerperal psychosis had provoking agents, which is less than the figure for women in the community (36%). Provoking agents were present in only 8 of 25 patients with post-natal depression, but they were present in seven of nine patients with pre-natal depression and eight of nine women in the community with pre-natal depression.
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Department of Psychiatry, Birmingham University, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre.
Martin
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Brown
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Goldberg
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Margison
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D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000523:psychology; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011644:Puerperal Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*