What factors determine whether a woman becomes depressed during the perimenopause?

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 323-332

  Gibbs, Zoe ^a   Lee, Stuart ^a   Kulkarni, Jayashri ^a  

^a Old Baker Building ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Depression; Perimenopause; Protective factors; Psychosocial; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLIMACTERIUM; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD DISORDER; PERIMENOPAUSAL DEPRESSION; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; WELLBEING; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; DEPRESSION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84866732168     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: 14351102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-012-0304-0     Document Type: Review

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