title: Nonpsychotic postpartum depression among adolescent mothers.
abstract: This study examined the extent to which childbearing increases vulnerability to clinical depression and depressive symptomatology among primiparous adolescent girls (ages 14 to 18). Childbearing Ss (n = 128) were assessed during pregnancy, 6 weeks postpartum, and 1 year postpartum. Matched nonchildbearing Ss (n = 114) were assessed at corresponding time points. Six weeks postpartum, 6% of the childbearing adolescents met Research Diagnostic Criteria for major depression and 20% for minor depression. These rates were not significantly different from those found for nonchildbearing Ss (4% major depression, 10% minor depression). However, higher rates of somatic symptoms of depression were found among the childbearing Ss than among the nonchildbearing Ss.
authors.affiliation: Center for Health Services Research, Iowa City, Iowa.
authors.forename: B R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Troutman
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Cutrona
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007484:Iowa; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000523:psychology*; D011644:Puerperal Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*