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Premenstrual mood changes and maternal mental health in pregnancy and the postpartum period
Author(s) -
Sugawara M.,
Toda M. A.,
Shima S.,
Mukai T.,
Sakakura K.,
Kitamura T.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199704)53:3<225::aid-jclp5>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - irritability , pregnancy , psychology , mood , anxiety , postpartum period , childbirth , mental health , psychiatry , obstetrics , postpartum depression , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , medicine , genetics , macroeconomics , economics , biology
To investigate the relationship between premenstrual mood changes and maternal mental health in the perinatal period, a prospective questionnaire survey of 1,329 women was carried out. Women with a premenstrual mood changes (irritability) before pregnancy showed significantly higher Zung's Self‐rating Depression Scale (SDS) scores than those without it, throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period (6 time points: early, middle, and late pregnancy, 5 days, 1 month, and 6 months after childbirth). In addition, women with premenstrual irritability had greater anxiety about pregnancy and delivery, were more reluctant to accept mother roles, and felt their babies (fetuses or neonates) were more vulnerable. These findings suggest that premenstrual mood change is correlated with unstable mental health throughout the perinatal period. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.