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Article: Postpartum depression and postpartum blues: an evolutionary psychology approach.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of Science
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Traditionally, postpartum blues and postpartum depression were considered hormonal disturbances, as well as affective disorders occurring after birth. The evolutionary approach considers new risk factors deriving from the shift from traditional birth to the stresses inherent to hospitalization. This ongoing epidemiological study, based on a questionnaire administered to parturient in Bucharest, Romania short time after birth, aims to approach postpartum depression from the evolutionary perspective. Logistic regression analysis was used to estimate the odds ration (OR) for the relationship between measures of postpartum depression and postpartum blues and various risk ...