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. 2017 Jun;9(6):512-515.
doi: 10.14740/jocmr3035w. Epub 2017 Apr 26.

Screening for Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms During Pregnancy and Postpartum at a Japanese Perinatal Center

Shunji Suzuki  1 , Masako Eto  1
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Screening for Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms During Pregnancy and Postpartum at a Japanese Perinatal Center

Shunji Suzuki et al. J Clin Med Res. 2017 Jun.

Abstract

Background: We examined the current status of depressive and anxiety symptoms in Japanese women during pregnancy and postpartum.

Methods: We asked 220 Japanese women who gave birth to singleton babies at term to answer the two self-administered questionnaires (Whooley's two questions and two-item generalized anxiety disorder scale) at first, second and third trimester of pregnancy and 1 month after delivery.

Results: The rates of women with depressive symptoms were common during the first trimester of pregnancy (25%) and the postpartum (17%), while the women with anxiety symptoms were common during the first trimester of pregnancy (36%). Eight percent women had histories of mental disorders, and 95% of them showed depressive and/or anxiety symptoms somewhere during pregnancy. Of the women who had depressive symptoms during postpartum, 86% showed depressive and/or anxiety symptoms somewhere during pregnancy.

Conclusion: Screening for depressive and anxiety symptoms during pregnancy was suggested to be useful to detect high risk women of postpartum depression.

Keywords: Anxiety symptom; Depressive symptom; Japan; Postpartum; Pregnancy.

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Figure 1
Results of answers for Whooley’s two questions during pregnancy and 1 month after delivery.
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Figure 2
Results of answers for the two-item generalized anxiety disorder scale during pregnancy and 1 month after delivery.
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