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1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and Obstetrics & Gynecology, McMaster University and Women's Health Concerns Clinic, St Joseph's Healthcare, Fontbonne 639, 50 Charlton Avenue East, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 4A6. mst@mcmaster.ca
Family Practice
|October 3, 2002
Abstract:
The rate of past and family psychiatric history was ascertained in 254 women diagnosed with postnatal depression. Probands and first-degree relatives were interviewed to establish lifetime and current major psychiatric diagnoses. 78.3% of the women studied had a past and/or family psychiatric history. These data confirm the importance of these variables when screening women who may be at risk for postnatal depression.