dc.creator | Rojas Castillo, María Graciela | |
dc.creator | Fritsch Montero, Rosemarie | |
dc.creator | Guajardo, Viviana | |
dc.creator | Rojas, Felipe | |
dc.creator | Barroilhet, Sergio | |
dc.creator | Jadresic, Enrique | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-11T13:00:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-11T13:00:06Z | |
dc.date.created | 2019-03-11T13:00:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier | Revista Medica de Chile, Volumen 138, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 536-542 | |
dc.identifier | 07176163 | |
dc.identifier | 00349887 | |
dc.identifier | https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/165034 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a mood disorder that occurs during a specific period of women's lifetime: Puerperium. The prevalence of PPD ranges from 8% to 30%, and a three-fold increase is seen in emerging as compared to developed countries. Aim: To characterize women consulting in primary care facilities for PPD. Material and Methods: Social and demographic features, obstetrical history, clinical symptoms and puerperal care of 440 postpartum women that sought help in primary care and were diagnosed as depressed, are described. Results: These women had no paid employment (82.7%), had unplanned pregnancies (62.5%) and lacked adequate social support (59.4%). From the clinical viewpoint, most of these puerperal women had a family history of depression (64.2%) and 31% had suffered from previous depressive episodes. The clinical symptoms of these patients consisted of depressed mood (93.2%), anhedonia (87.9%) and fatigue (87%). Conclusions: Women depressed postpartum form a gr | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.publisher | Sociedad Medica de Santiago | |
dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/ | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Chile | |
dc.source | Revista Medica de Chile | |
dc.subject | Depression | |
dc.subject | Depressive disorder | |
dc.subject | Health care | |
dc.subject | Postpartum | |
dc.subject | Primary | |
dc.title | Characterization of depressed mothers in the postpartum Caracterización de madres deprimidas en el posparto | |
dc.type | Artículo de revista | |