Prospective Study of Postpartum Blues: Biologic and Psychosocial Factors

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 801-806

  O'Hara, Michael W ^a   Schlechte, Janet A ^a   Lewis, David A ^b   Wright, Ellen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STRESS;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ESTRIOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MARRIAGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0025995502     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1991.01810330025004     Document Type: Article

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