title: Post-partum mental illness in northern Nigeria.
abstract: All the major psychotic disorders observed following childbirth in the West also occur among patients in Northern Nigeria. The age at onset of post-partum mental disorder is observed to be lower among Northern than Southern Nigerian women; this, in the authors opinion, is probably because women in Northern Nigeria are generally "given out" to their spouses in early teenage. The study also comments on a probable entity of "pure puerperal psychosis."
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D009549:Nigeria; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011644:Puerperal Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012008:Recurrence; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology; D013997:Time Factors