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PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN OBSTETRICS
Author(s) -
Hatherley Lawrence I.,
Breheny James E.,
Robinson Frank S.,
Beischer Norman A.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1979.tb104206.x
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , psychiatry , socioeconomic status , pregnancy , obstetrics , ethnic group , psychiatric hospital , population , physics , environmental health , sociology , biology , anthropology , optics , genetics
The incidence of serious psychiatric illness in 27 376 patients during pregnancy and the Puerperium was one in 138 (0.7%). The puerperal‐onset group comprised 64 of the 198 cases (32%) and, of these, 22% required admission to a psychiatric institution. Moreover, this group of patients had a recurrence rate of 45% in subsequent pregnancies. Clinical, ethnic and socioeconomic factors were analysed and compared with the same factors in a control group to seek significant associations that might indicate impending psychiatric disorders in obstetric patients.