Detecting depression during pregnancy and associated lifestyle practices and concerns among women in a hospital-based obstetric clinic in Jamaica

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 254-261

  Pottinger, Audrey M ^a   Trotman Edwards, Helen ^a   Younger, Novie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Antenatal depression; Jamaican women; Lifestyle practices; Medication use; Psychosocial interventions

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANTENATAL DEPRESSION; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAMAICA; JUVENILE; LIFESTYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIED WOMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSTETRIC CARE; POVERTY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; JAMAICA; LIFE STYLE; MASS SCREENING; OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 67349210664     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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