Assessment of significant psychological distress at the end of pregnancy and associated factors

Archives of Women's Mental Health
L Lorén-GuerreroM A Romero-Cardiel

Abstract

The aim of this study is to study the prevalence of mental distress at the end of pregnancy and after birth and the impact of selected socio-demographic and obstetric factors. This is a cross-sectional study. The sample is consisted of 351 puerperal women at the age of 18 and over. Sociodemographic, obstetric variables were collected to detect significant psychological distress; the instrument used was General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28). Logistic multivariable regressions were used to investigate associations. The prevalence of significant mental distress amounted to 81.2%, mostly related to social relationship and anxiety. The women who affirmed having more stress during pregnancy had too significantly increased emotional distress before the birth as well as during early puerperium, increasing somatic symptoms (p < 0.001; OR 2.685; CI 95% 1.583-4.553), anxiety (p < 0.001; OR 4.676; CI 95% 2.846-7.684), and depressive symptoms (p < 0.01). Somatic symptoms (p < 0.05; OR 2.466; CI 95% 1.100-5.528) and social dysfunction (p < 0.001; OR 1.672; CI 95% 0.711-3.932) occur most frequently in women who already had children. Regarding socio-demographic data, being an immigrant is the only protective factor reducing the social dysfunct...Continue Reading

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