Stability and change in levels of depression and personality: A follow-up study of postpartum depressed mothers that were hospitalized in a mother-infant unit

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-51

  Vliegen, Nicole ^a   Luyten, Patrick ^a   Besser, Avi ^b   Casalin, Sara ^a   Kempke, Stefan ^a   Tang, Eileen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SAPIR ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dependency; Follow up; Personality; Postpartum depression; Selfcriticism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERSONALITY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERIUM; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; RISK FACTORS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 74949142276     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181c8aa57     Document Type: Article

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