Open AccessPrevalence and correlates of antenatal depression among women registered at antenatal clinic in North India
Author(s) -
Neha Dahiya,
Kamal Aggarwal,
Rajesh Kumar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
tzu-chi medical journal/cí-jì yīxué
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.343
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2223-8956
pISSN - 1016-3190
DOI - 10.4103/tcmj.tcmj_97_19
Subject(s) - medicine , depression (economics) , antenatal depression , pregnancy , edinburgh postnatal depression scale , logistic regression , confounding , socioeconomic status , abortion , obstetrics , incidence (geometry) , population , psychiatry , demography , anxiety , depressive symptoms , environmental health , genetics , physics , biology , optics , economics , macroeconomics , sociology
Women pass through many stages throughout her lifetime. Among these phases, pregnancy is crucial phase. If women are not able to cope with this stress, it may lead to adverse outcomes of pregnancy. Early detection of possible depression in pregnant women may lead to decrease in incidence of depression and adverse outcomes of pregnancy.