Journal article
Nonpsychotic Postpartum Depression Among Adolescent Mothers
Journal of abnormal psychology (1965), Vol.99(1), pp.69-78
02/1990
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.99.1.69
PMID: 2307769
Abstract
This study examined the extent to which childbearing increases vulnerability to clinical depression and depressive symptomatology among primiparous adolescent girls (ages 14 to 18). Childbearing Ss
(
n
= 128)
were assessed during pregnancy, 6 weeks postpartum, and 1 year postpartum. Matched nonchildbearing Ss
(
n
= 114)
were assessed at corresponding time points. Six weeks postpartum, 6% of the childbearing adolescents met Research Diagnostic Criteria for major depression and 20% for minor depression. These rates were not significantly different from those found for nonchildbearing Ss (4% major depression, 10% minor depression). However, higher rates of somatic symptoms of depression were found among the childbearing Ss than among the nonchildbearing Ss.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Nonpsychotic Postpartum Depression Among Adolescent Mothers
- Creators
- Beth R Troutman - Center for Health Services Research, Iowa City, IowaCarolyn E Cutrona - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of abnormal psychology (1965), Vol.99(1), pp.69-78
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/0021-843X.99.1.69
- PMID
- 2307769
- ISSN
- 0021-843X
- eISSN
- 1939-1846
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/1990
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984003961202771
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