[Epidemiological characteristics of depressed Mexican pregnant women].
OBJECTIVE
To estimate the prevalence of depression in pregnant women, the epidemiological characteristics and associated factors.


METHODS
A cross-comparison, with a sample of 220 pregnant women between 18 and 32 weeks gestation. We excluded patients with depression six months before the current pregnancy.


RESULTS
Depressed women were 6.4 %, mean age 26 years and 21.4 % were adolescent. The majority women were high school students (50 %); 71.4 % belong to a low medium socioeconomic status; 21.4 % were without a partner; 35.7 % had depression history in the family and 28.6 % had a history of prior antidepressant treatment.


CONCLUSIONS
The prevalence of depression in Mexican pregnant women was low. Risk factors associated to depression were young age, low socio-economical status, a lack of a partner, a history of depression in the family.
Ceballos-Martínez
Inés
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Unidad de Investigación en Epidemiología Clínica, Hospital General Regional 17, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. zoila.ceballos@imss.gob.mx
Sandoval-Jurado
Luis
L
Jaimes-Mundo
Erika
E
Medina-Peralta
Gloria
G
Madera-Gamboa
Joel
J
Fernández-Arias
Yuri Francisco
YF
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D055815:Young Adult