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Prediction, detection, and treatment of postnatal depression
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Epidemiological studies of puerperal samples have consistently
revealed the prevalence of non-psychotic major depressive disorder in
the early weeks after delivery to be around 10%.1
Although this rate does not, in fact, represent an elevation over the
non-postpartum base rate,2-5 the inception rate for
depression does appear to be raised in the first three months
postpartum compared with the following nine months.5 6
There has been considerable clinical and research attention paid to
postpartum depression in recent years, in part because it occurs at a
particularly important time in a woman's life: the early postpartum
period is the time when the foundation of the mother-child relationship
is laid. Indeed, a large body of evidence attests to the fact that
postpartum depression does have an adverse impact on the progress of
this important early period. Thus, compared with well mothers, mothers
with postpartum depression report significantly higher rates of
problems with infant
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