Anxiety and stress in the postpartum: Is there more to postnatal distress than depression?

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Miller, Renée L ^a   Pallant, Julie F ^a   Negri, Lisa M ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADJUSTMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; PRIMIPARA; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33646202585     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-6-12     Document Type: Article

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