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Paternal postpartum depression in an obsessive personality following the COVID-19 lockdown successfully treated with Vortioxetine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

L. Orsolini ,
S. Pompili ,
V. Salvi  and
U. Volpe
L. Orsolini
Affiliation:
Unit of Clinical Psychiatry, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy, Department Of Neurosciences/dimsc, Ancona, Italy
S. Pompili*
Affiliation:
Unit of Clinical Psychiatry, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy, Department Of Neurosciences/dimsc, Ancona, Italy
V. Salvi
Affiliation:
Unit of Clinical Psychiatry, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy, Department Of Neurosciences/dimsc, Ancona, Italy
U. Volpe
Affiliation:
Unit of Clinical Psychiatry, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy, Department Of Neurosciences/dimsc, Ancona, Italy
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

A growing amount of studies investigating the mental health impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic worldwide have been recently published, even though very few studies investigating the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown on the mental health of fathers of newborns during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly on paternal postpartum depression (PPD).

Objectives

A case report describing a 37-years-old man with an obsessive-compulsive personality who manifests the onset of a clinically relevant PPD following his wife’s delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic and the onset of obsessive symptomatology.

Methods

At baseline and during a 12-months follow-up were administered the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), Fear of COVID-19 (FCV-19-S), Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) and Y-BOCS-II (Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale).

Results

Patient was successfully treated with vortioxetine up to 20 mg/die with a significant clinical remission of depressive and obsessive symptomatology at 6 months and a maintenance therapy with vortioxetine 10 mg daily.

Conclusions

PPD should be better investigated, particularly the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health of fathers of newborns during the COVID-19-related situation.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

Covid-19lockdownpaternal postpartum depressionobsessive personality
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European Psychiatry , Volume 65 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry , June 2022 , pp. S507
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