Post-partum depression in a cohort of women from a rural area of Tamil Nadu, India

Chandran, Mani; Tharyan, Prathap; Muliyil, Jayaprakash; Abraham, Sulochana

doi:10.1192/bjp.181.6.499

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Post-partum depression in a cohort of women from a rural area of Tamil Nadu, India

Published in The British Journal of Psychiatry • Nov 27, 2002

Authors:

Mani Chandran

Prathap Tharyan

Jayaprakash Muliyil

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Community-based epidemiological data on post-partum depression from developing countries are scarce. AIMS: To determine the incidence of and risk factors for developing post-partum depression in a cohort of women living in rural south India. METHOD: We assessed 359 women in the last trim...

Subject

Medicine

Depression (economics)

Pregnancy

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