title: Pre- and postnatal depression and coping: a comparative approach.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The assessment of perinatal depressions and coping style.
  
  
  METHODS
  With depression scales (EPDS, GHQ.12) and Carver's BriefCope, the authors compared the prevalence rates of pre and postnatal depression in a cohort of 277 French women.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Their work revealed very high levels of prenatal depression (almost 20%) and less important but nonetheless sizeable rates (11%) of postnatal depression, making such perinatal depressions a major public health concern. The coping styles proposed in Carver's public health BriefCope questionnaire make it possible to significantly differentiate during these two periods between depressive women and their non-depressed counterparts.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This enables us to underline factors of risk and protection suggesting the importance of setting up compensatory and preventive systems and evaluating their pertinence in the framework of future research.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Psychology, GREPSA-Université Nancy 2-3 Place Godefroy de Bouilllon,54015 Nancy Cedex, France. detychey@univ-nancy2.fr
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: de Tychey
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Spitz
authors.forename: Serge
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Briançon
authors.forename: Joëlle
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lighezzolo
authors.forename: Françoise
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Girvan
authors.forename: Aurore
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosati
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thockler
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vincent
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D019052:Depression, Postpartum / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology