[Hormonal contraceptives cause depression?].
Psychometrical investigation found depressive feelings in 515 women under hormonal contraceptives. There was a significant lower compatibility of oral contraceptive with that quarter of women suffering from depressive tendencies. This group complained nearly twice as often about headaches. Temporary listlessness and tiredness were registered nearly for three times more than in that of women without depressive tendencies. Personal striking features which were registered by psychometrical investigation indicate that psychogenesis is the dominating factor of depressive feelings. One seventh of women with neurotic tendencies suffered from depressive feelings in 54 per cent. You can find the same situation only in 3 per cent of this seventh part of women without any neurotic features. The results of this study influence the way of practical advice in contraceptives.
D000328:Adult; D003276:Contraceptives, Oral / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003278:Contraceptives, Oral, Hormonal / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003863:Depression / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans
D003276:Contraceptives, Oral; D003278:Contraceptives, Oral, Hormonal
Hormonale Kontrazeptive depressions-fördernd?