title: [Epidemiological characteristics of depressed Mexican pregnant women].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación en Epidemiología Clínica, Hospital General Regional 17, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. zoila.ceballos@imss.gob.mx
authors.forename: Inés
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ceballos-Martínez
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sandoval-Jurado
authors.forename: Erika
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jaimes-Mundo
authors.forename: Gloria
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Medina-Peralta
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Madera-Gamboa
authors.forename: Yuri Francisco
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Fernández-Arias
mesh_terms: 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