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Using a Murine Model of Psychosocial Stress in Pregnancy as a Translationally Relevant Paradigm for Psychiatric Disorders in Mothers and Infants
Published on: June 13, 2021
Pre- and postnatal depression and coping: a comparative approach
Claude de Tychey1, Elisabeth Spitz, Serge Briançon
1Clinical Psychology, GREPSA-Université Nancy 2-3 Place Godefroy de Bouilllon,54015 Nancy Cedex, France. detychey@univ-nancy2.fr
Background:
The assessment of perinatal depressions and coping style.
Methods:
With depression scales (EPDS, GHQ.12) and Carver's BriefCope, the authors compared the prevalence rates of pre and postnatal depression in a cohort of 277 French women.
Results:
Their work revealed very high levels of prenatal depression (almost 20%) and less important but nonetheless sizeable rates (11%) of postnatal depression, making such perinatal depressions a major public health concern. The coping styles proposed in Carver's public health BriefCope questionnaire make it possible to significantly differentiate during these two periods between depressive women and their non-depressed counterparts.
Conclusions:
This enables us to underline factors of risk and protection suggesting the importance of setting up compensatory and preventive systems and evaluating their pertinence in the framework of future research.
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