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Life Events and Social Support During Pregnancy: Are they Related to Depressive Symptoms in Immediate Postpartum?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

L. Rodriguez Incio
Affiliation:
Neurosciences Institute, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain
E. Gelabert
Affiliation:
Neuropsychopharmacology Program, IMIM - Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
M. Udina Bonet
Affiliation:
Neurosciences Institute, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain
K. Langohr
Affiliation:
Neuropsychopharmacology Program, IMIM - Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
P. Navarro García
Affiliation:
Neurosciences Institute, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain
R. Navines de la Cruz
Affiliation:
Neuropsychopharmacology Program, IMIM - Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
L. García-Esteve
Affiliation:
Neurosciences Institute, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain
R. Martin-Santos Laffon
Affiliation:
Neurosciences Institute, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

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Introduction:

Pregnancy and postpartum both imply high risk for developing psychiatric disorders in women.

Aims:

To study the relationship between life events (LE) and social support degree (SS) during pregnancy and depressive symptoms in early postpartum period.

Method:

A cross-sectional study of 309 consecutive Spanish women, evaluated the second day postpartum. They were all over 18 years old and have signed the informed consent. We excluded: illiteracy, cognitive impairment or severe medical illness, psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and decease of the newborn. We collected socio-demographic and obstetrical data, as well as family and personal psychiatric history, the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), LE (Saint Paul Ramsey) and SS (DUKE-UNK).

Results:

Mean age (SD) was 31.6 (4.7). Most of women were married, had intermediated or high level of education. Sixty-one percent were primiparous. Twenty-six percent had family history and 22% had personal psychiatric history. Mean (SD) of LE was 0.95 (0.89) and of SS was 53.1 (7.6). The prevalence of depressive symptoms according to EPDS scores was 18%. This subgroup of depressed women had more psychiatric family history (p=0.046), less LE (p< 0.001) and more SS during pregnancy (p=0.048). Logistic regression analysis showed that SS was the only significant variable (OR=1.085; 95%CI=0.997-0.994; p=0.001). LE did not achieve statistical significance (OR=1.085; 95%CI=0.997-1.180; p=0.059).

Conclusions:

Low social support degree during pregnancy is associated with depressive symptoms during immediate postpartum.

This study has been done in part with grants Instituto Carlos III: G03/184, FIS: PI04178; 05/2565.

Type
P01-287
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2009
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