EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHIATRIC COMPLICATIONS O F POSTPARTUM

Citation
Al. Sutter et M. Bourgeois, EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHIATRIC COMPLICATIONS O F POSTPARTUM, Contraception fertilite sexualite, 22(1), 1994, pp. 61-64
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Obsetric & Gynecology
ISSN journal
11651083
Volume
22
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
61 - 64
Database
ISI
SICI code
1165-1083(1994)22:1<61:EAPCOF>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
The three emotional and psychiatric complications of post-partum are: puerperal psychoses ; post-natal depressions ; and post-partum blues. Puerperal psychoses (prevalence = 0,2 %) are now well known in their c linical and therapeutic aspects. Much less known are the post-natal de pressions, in spite of their high incidence (10 to 20 % of women). The consequences upon the life of patients and mother-child bond are stil l ignored. These depressions are too rarely adequately treated. Finall y, post-partum blues is to be recognized for a preventive purpose, its intensity being a predictive factor of post-natal depression.