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Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology
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Perinatal mental illness is a significant complication of pregnancy and the postpartum period. These disorders include depression, anxiety disorders, and postpartum psychosis, which usually manifests as bipolar disorder. Perinatal depression and anxiety are common, with prevalence rates for major and minor depression up to almost 20% during pregnancy and the first 3 months postpartum. Postpartum blues are a common but lesser manifestation of postpartum affective disturbance. Perinatal psychiatric disorders impair a woman's function and are associated with suboptimal development of her offspring. Risk factors include past history of depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder, as well psychosocial factors, such as ongoing conflict with the partner, poor social support, and ongoing stressful life events. Early symptoms of depression, anxiety, and mania can be detected through screening in pregnancy and the postpartum period. Early detection and effective management of perinatal psychiatric disorders are critical for the welfare of women and their offspring.
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“Postpartum blues are a common but lesser manifestation of postpartum affective disturbance.”
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“Prevalence estimates for perinatal depressive disorders vary considerably depending upon the definition of the disorder and the period over which prevalence is determined [9,10].”
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“Perinatal depression and anxiety are common, with prevalence rates for major and minor depression up to almost 20% during pregnancy and the first 3 months postpartum.”
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- Not checked yetcites [9] Gavin, 2005, Perinatal depression: a systematic review of prevalence and incidence, Obstet Gynecol source
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“As with perinatal depression, the major risk factor for perinatal anxiety disorders is a history of anxiety disorders.”
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“In a US study, however, only 1.9% of pregnant women met criteria for GAD [18].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum anxiety disorders
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- Not checked yetcites [18] Mota, 2008, The relationship between mental disorders, quality of life, and pregnancy: findings from a nationally representative sample, J Affect Disord source
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“In a large-scale postpartum screening study with follow-up diagnostic evaluations [20], 66% of women with major depression in the postpartum period had comorbid anxiety disorders.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum anxiety disorders
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- Not checked yetcites [20] Wisner, 2013, Onset timing, thoughts of self-harm, and diagnoses in postpartum women with screen-positive depression findings, JAMA Psychiatry source
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“Women are vulnerable to affective psychoses after birth more than at any other time during their lives [28].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
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- Not checked yetcites [28] Munk-Olsen, 2009, Risks and predictors of readmission for a mental disorder during the postpartum period, Arch Gen Psychiatry source
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“All of these reviews and empirical studies conclude that depression is common during pregnancy and after delivery in developing and developed countries.”
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“The recognition and clinical diagnosis of bipolar disorder is by far the most important prerequisite for adequate treatment [40].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
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- Not checked yetcites [40] Arvilommi, 2007, Adequacy of treatment received by diagnosed and undiagnosed patients with bipolar I and II disorders, J Clin Psychiatry source
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“Women with bipolar disorder are particularly vulnerable to developing psychotic and non-psychotic episodes in the postpartum period [29,30].”
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“What these prevalence rates suggest is that anxiety ranging from excessive worry to panic attacks is prevalent during pregnancy and the postpartum period.”
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“A wide range of anxiety disorders are prevalent in the perinatal period. These include generalised anxiety, obsessive–compulsive, panic, and social anxiety disorders.”
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“Sleep deprivation and interference with circadian rhythms during late pregnancy, labour, and frequent newborn feeding promote mood destabilization [27].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
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- Not checked yetcites [27] Yonkers, 2004, Management of bipolar disorder during pregnancy and the postpartum period, Am J Psychiatry source
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“Half of women who have ‘treatment resistant’ postpartum depression actually suffer from undiagnosed bipolar disorder [42].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
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- Not checked yetcites [42] Sharma, 2009, Bipolar II postpartum depression: detection, diagnosis, and treatment, Am J Psychiatry source
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“The effect of pregnancy on the course of bipolar disorder has not been elucidated.”
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“The symptom patterns in women with postpartum psychosis have consistently been reported to differ from women with psychosis not related to childbearing [22–24].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
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- Not checked yetcites [22] Brockington, 1981, Puerperal psychosis. Phenomena and diagnosis, Arch Gen Psychiatry source
- Not checked yetcites [23] Kadrmas, 1979, Postpartum mania, Br J Psychiatry source
- Not checked yetcites [24] Platz, 1988, A matched-control follow-up and family study of ‘puerperal psychoses’, Br J Psychiatry source
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“In the first 6 months after delivery, rates of GAD, based on several studies, ranged from 6.1% to 7.7%.”
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- Not checked yetcites [19] Wenzel, 2011
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“Although many women with bipolar disorder receive treatment for depression or comorbid mental disorders (such as substance abuse or anxiety disorders), lack of recognition of the underlying bipolarity results in few receiving appropriate treatment [41].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
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- Not checked yetcites [41] Merikangas, 2007, Lifetime and 12-month prevalence of bipolar spectrum disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey replication, Arch Gen Psychiatry source
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“Prevalence estimates for the blues range from 26% [46] to 84% [47], reflecting more or less stringent criteria.”
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“In the only published screening study for postpartum BD, Sharma and Xie [39] gave women with a diagnosis of MDD (n = 68) or bipolar disorder (n = 57) the MDQ at 2–4 weeks after delivery. The MDQ yielded a sensitivity of 75% and specificity of 87% with the original scoring criteria.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
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- Not checked yetcites [39] Sharma, 2011, Screening for postpartum bipolar disorder: validation of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire, J Affect Disord source
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“At about the same time, Bennett et al. [11] conducted a separate meta-analysis of depression in pregnancy based on 21 studies and 19,284 participants, and reported prevalence rates of 7.4% (first trimester), 12.8% (second trimester), and 12.0% (third trimester).”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Perinatal depression
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- Not checked yetcites [11] Bennett, 2004, Prevalence of depression during pregnancy: systematic review, Obstet Gynecol source
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“The findings that two distinct mood factors exist — negative and positive affect — in the early postpartum period suggest that the structure of mood in the postpartum period is the same as the structure of mood at other times in a woman’s life.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum blues
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“Good evidence shows that mood symptoms worsen in the first week postpartum and then gradually improve [50].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum blues
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- Not checked yetcites [50] O'Hara, 1995
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“Mothers who develop postpartum psychosis usually have a diagnosis consistent with bipolar depression, mania, or mixed state, with psychotic features [27].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
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- Not checked yetcites [27] Yonkers, 2004, Management of bipolar disorder during pregnancy and the postpartum period, Am J Psychiatry source
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“Rates of anxiety disorders in pregnancy and the postpartum period range widely.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum anxiety disorders
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- Not checked yetcites [17] Adewuya, 2006, Anxiety disorders among Nigerian women in late pregnancy: a controlled study, Arch Womens Ment Health source
- Not checked yetcites [18] Mota, 2008, The relationship between mental disorders, quality of life, and pregnancy: findings from a nationally representative sample, J Affect Disord source
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“For example, in a Nigerian study, Adewuya et al. [17] reported that 10.5% of pregnant women met DSM-IV criteria for generalised anxiety disorder (GAD).”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum anxiety disorders
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- Not checked yetcites [17] Adewuya, 2006, Anxiety disorders among Nigerian women in late pregnancy: a controlled study, Arch Womens Ment Health source
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“Women with OCD without psychosis or severe personality disorder have no increased risk of aggressive harm to their infants [21,43,45].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
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- Not checked yetcites [21] Sit, 2006, A review of postpartum psychosis, J Womens Health (Larchmt) source
- Not checked yetcites [43] Hudak, 2012, Diagnosis and treatment of postpartum obsessions and compulsions that involve infant harm, Am J Psychiatry source
- Not checked yetcites [45] Abramowitz, 2003, Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in pregnancy and the puerperium: a review of the literature, J Anxiety Disord source
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“Both studies have significant limitations because they were not designed specifically to determine the prevalence of perinatal depression relative to depression that occurs at other times in a woman’s life.”
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“This time frame overlaps with the baby blues and early postpartum depression.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Causal factors > Biological underpinnings
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“Genetic studies have also pointed to specific hereditary factors in postpartum depression [32].”
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- Not checked yetcites [32] Mahon, 2009, Genome-wide linkage and follow-up association study of postpartum mood symptoms, Am J Psychiatry source
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“Women who develop postpartum onset major depression are differentially sensitive to the mood-destabilising effects of withdrawal from reproductive hormones at birth.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Causal factors > Biological underpinnings
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- Not checked yetcites [34] Bloch, 2000, Effects of gonadal steroids in women with a history of postpartum depression, Am J Psychiatry source
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“Positive social relationships are often instrumental in buffering the effects of psychiatric vulnerability and life stress.”
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“For example, Vesga-Lopez et al. [54] found that, in a large sample of postpartum and non-postpartum women (in the USA) after controlling for sociodemographic characteristics, previous history of depression, overall health and stressful life events, the odds ratio for depression in the postpartum was 1.52 (CI 1.07 to 2.15), a significant effect.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Distinctiveness of perinatal mental illness
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- Not checked yetcites [54] Vesga-Lopez, 2008, Psychiatric disorders in pregnant and postpartum women in the United States, Arch Gen Psychiatry source
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“Genome-wide data suggested that genetic variations on specific chromosomes may increase susceptibility to postpartum mood symptoms.”
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- Not checked yetcites [32] Mahon, 2009, Genome-wide linkage and follow-up association study of postpartum mood symptoms, Am J Psychiatry source
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“In a study conducted in the UK, Davé et al. [55] linked childbirth, and depression diagnoses and antidepressant prescriptions in medical records for couples (n > 17,000) over a 12-year period, and found that the incidence of a diagnosis of depression or a prescription for antidepressant medication was almost 14% in the first year after delivery and fell to about 6% in the second year and beyond.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Distinctiveness of perinatal mental illness
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- Not checked yetcites [55] Davé, 2010, Incidence of maternal and paternal depression in primary care: a cohort study using a primary care database, Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med source
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“What these findings suggest is that three constellations of risk factors exist: history of psychiatric illness, which may range from mild to severe, life stress, and poor social relationships.”
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“The neurobiological effects of this massive steroid withdrawal predispose to the development of postpartum depression.”
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“For example, studies of perinatal depression that included control groups of non-pregnant and non-postpartum women have not found different rates of depression across groups [52,53].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Distinctiveness of perinatal mental illness
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- Not checked yetcites [52] Cooper, 1988, Non-psychotic psychiatric disorder after childbirth. A prospective study of prevalence, incidence, course and nature, Br J Psychiatry source
- Not checked yetcites [53] O'Hara, 1990, Controlled prospective study of postpartum mood disorders: comparison of childbearing and nonchildbearing women, J Abnorm Psychol source
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“Perinatal psychiatric disorders impair a woman’s function and are associated with suboptimal development of her offspring.”
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“For example, the most recent quantitative review of the prevalence of perinatal depression found that the period prevalence (over the first 3 months postpartum) of depression broadly defined was 19.2%, but the prevalence of the more narrowly defined (and more severe) major depression was 7.2% [9].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Perinatal depression
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- Not checked yetcites [9] Gavin, 2005, Perinatal depression: a systematic review of prevalence and incidence, Obstet Gynecol source
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“Risk factors include past history of depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder, as well psychosocial factors, such as ongoing conflict with the partner, poor social support, and ongoing stressful life events.”
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- Not checked yetcites [58] O'Hara, 2013, Postpartum depression: current status and future directions, Annu Rev Clin Psychol source
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“To the extent that negative biopsychosocial exposures can be diminished, eliminated, or replaced with positive factors, childbearing outcomes and the subsequent health of the mother of an offspring can be improved.”
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“These disorders include depression, anxiety disorders, and postpartum psychosis, which usually manifests as bipolar disorder.”
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“High levels of stress and associated mental illnesses affect maternal and fetal outcomes, and also long-term offspring health into adulthood.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites [6] Misra, 2003, Integrated perinatal health framework. A multiple determinants model with a life span approach, Am J Prev Med source
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“The United Kingdom Confidential Enquiry into All Maternal Deaths (1997–1999) [35] revealed that 10% of postpartum deaths resulted from suicide, and 12% resulted from psychiatric causes (e.g. accidental overdose, deaths from medical conditions due to substance use, and violent”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
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- Not checked yetcites [35] Oates, 2003, Suicide: the leading cause of maternal death, Br J Psychiatry source
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“The incidence of postpartum psychosis is one or two per 1000 births [21].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [21] Sit, 2006, A review of postpartum psychosis, J Womens Health (Larchmt) source
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“Negative mood symptoms have been found to peak between day 3 and day 5 postpartum, perhaps reflecting hormonal readjustments after delivery [49–51].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum blues
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“Antidepressant drug monotherapy for bipolar disorder may precipitate rapid cycling, induce mania, or increase treatment resistance [40].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [40] Arvilommi, 2007, Adequacy of treatment received by diagnosed and undiagnosed patients with bipolar I and II disorders, J Clin Psychiatry source
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“Fisher et al. [12] reported separately on prevalence of perinatal depression in low- and middle-income countries. The mean prevalence of postpartum depression in these countries was estimated to be 19.8% (15.6% during pregnancy).”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Perinatal depression
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [12] Fisher, 2012, Prevalence and determinants of common perinatal mental disorders in women in low- and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review, Bull World Health Organ source
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“For women with bipolar disorder, the first 30 days after birth carries a relative risk of 23.3 of having a psychiatric admission compared with women at any other period after birth, and 30–60 days after birth incurs a risk of 6.3 [29].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [29] Munk-Olsen, 2006, New parents and mental disorders: a population-based register study, JAMA source
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“The prevalence of depression across pregnancy was estimated at 18.4% (12.7% major depression).”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Perinatal depression
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- Not checked yetcites [9] Gavin, 2005, Perinatal depression: a systematic review of prevalence and incidence, Obstet Gynecol source
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“One of the few screening measures for bipolar disorder, and the most commonly used, is the Mood Disorders Questionnaire (MDQ) [38].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [38] Hirschfeld, 2000, Development and validation of a screening instrument for bipolar spectrum disorder: the Mood Disorder Questionnaire, Am J Psychiatry source
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“Rates of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) during pregnancy ranged from 1.2% to 5.2%, and the rate was about 4.0% at 6 months postpartum.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum anxiety disorders
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- Not checked yetcites [19] Wenzel, 2011
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“Viguera et al. [37] retrospectively compared recurrence rates and survival functions for women with bipolar disorder in two groups receiving tertiary psychiatric care treatment. One group discontinued lithium during childbearing, and the other discontinued lithium but was non-childbearing. Rates of recurrence over the first 40 weeks after lithium discontinuation were similar for pregnant (52%) and”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [37] Viguera, 2000, Risk of recurrence of bipolar disorder in pregnant and nonpregnant women after discontinuing lithium maintenance, Am J Psychiatry source
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“With panic disorder, rates ranged from 1.4% to 9.1% during pregnancy and 0.5% to 2.9% between 6 and 10 weeks postpartum.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum anxiety disorders
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- Not checked yetcites [19] Wenzel, 2011
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“Postpartum psychosis presents rapidly after birth, with mood fluctuation, confusion, and marked cognitive impairment suggestive of delirium, bizarre behaviour, insomnia, visual and auditory hallucinations, and unusual (i.e. tactile and olfactory) hallucinations [25].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
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- Not checked yetcites [25] Wisner, 1994, Symptomatology of affective and psychotic illnesses related to childbearing, J Affect Disord source
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“Postpartum depressions are generally independent of the blues, but the postpartum blues do represent a risk factor for postpartum depression [46].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum blues
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- Not checked yetcites [46] O'Hara, 1991, Prospective study of postpartum blues. Biologic and psychosocial factors, Arch Gen Psychiatry source
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“Given the deleterious effects of significant maternal anxiety on the developing fetus, and the way in which it complicates early parenting, the obstetrician should be as alert for anxiety symptoms as for depressive symptoms in the perinatal period.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum anxiety disorders
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“The causes of post-birth decompensation in women with bipolar disorder include genetic factors [31–33] and massive gonadal steroid withdrawal after birth in women who are neurobiologically sensitive to hormonal change [34].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [31] Binder, 2010, A serotonin transporter gene polymorphism predicts peripartum depressive symptoms in an at-risk psychiatric cohort, J Psychiatr Res source
- Not checked yetcites [32] Mahon, 2009, Genome-wide linkage and follow-up association study of postpartum mood symptoms, Am J Psychiatry source
- Not checked yetcites [33] Sanjuan, 2008, Mood changes after delivery: role of the serotonin transporter gene, Br J Psychiatry source
- Not checked yetcites [34] Bloch, 2000, Effects of gonadal steroids in women with a history of postpartum depression, Am J Psychiatry source
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“In women with postpartum onset major depression, 57% reported obsessional thoughts of harm to their baby, and most had checking compulsions (i.e. highly repetitive night-time checking to make sure the baby is breathing) [44].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum psychosis: bipolar disorder
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [44] Wisner, 1999, Obsessions and compulsions in women with postpartum depression, J Clin Psychiatry source
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“Finally, rates for social anxiety disorder in pregnancy ranged from 2.0% to 6.4%, and in the early postpartum period prevalence rates ranged from 0.2% to 6.5% [19].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum anxiety disorders
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- Not checked yetcites [19] Wenzel, 2011
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“Unfortunately, no established criteria for the blues exist, although O’Hara et al. [46] adapted the work of Handley et al. [48] and proposed diagnostic criteria that led to their determination of a 26% prevalence rate.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Types of perinatal disorders > Postpartum blues
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“Biologic factors also play a significant role in the development of perinatal mental illness.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Conclusion
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“Postpartum blues are a common and less serious manifestation of affective disturbance, which emerge early in the postpartum period but have few negative sequelae.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Conclusion
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“Other relevant risk factors that have smaller associations with postpartum depression include low socioeconomic status, being single, unwanted pregnancy, obstetrical stressors, and difficult infant temperament.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Causal factors > Psychological and environmental underpinnings
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- Not checked yetcites [58] O'Hara, 2013, Postpartum depression: current status and future directions, Annu Rev Clin Psychol source
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“Monoamine oxidase A levels were 43% greater 4–6 days after birth; therefore, neurotransmitters are more rapidly depleted.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Causal factors > Biological underpinnings
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [61] Sacher, 2010, Elevated brain monoamine oxidase A binding in the early postpartum period, Arch Gen Psychiatry source
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“Perinatal depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and postpartum psychosis represent mental health problems that, in the case of depression and anxiety, are relatively common and serious, and in the case of bipolar disorder and psychosis, while relatively less common, can have devastating consequences for the mother and her family.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Conclusion
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“On the basis of these reviews, risk factors with moderate to strong associations with postpartum depression include history of depression, depression and anxiety during pregnancy, neuroticism, low self-esteem, postpartum blues, stressful life events, poor marital relationship, and poor social support [58].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Causal factors > Psychological and environmental underpinnings
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- Not checked yetcites [58] O'Hara, 2013, Postpartum depression: current status and future directions, Annu Rev Clin Psychol source
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“In a landmark study, Bloch et al. [34] simulated the withdrawal of hormones at birth by inducing a hypogonadal state in women with leuprolide, adding back supraphysiologic doses of oestradiol and progesterone for 8 weeks, then withdrawing both steroids under double-blind conditions. Five of eight women with a history of postpartum depression, compared with 0 of the 8 women without a history of”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Causal factors > Biological underpinnings
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- Not checked yetcites [34] Bloch, 2000, Effects of gonadal steroids in women with a history of postpartum depression, Am J Psychiatry source
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“Of course, depression is common among women, and the ages at which women are most likely to have children are those at which women seem to have the highest rates of depression across the life-span [56,57].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Distinctiveness of perinatal mental illness
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- Not checked yetcites [56] Blazer, 1994, The prevalence and distribution of major depression in a national community sample: the National Comorbidity Survey, Am J Psychiatry source
- Not checked yetcites [57] Eaton, 2012, An invariant dimensional liability model of gender differences in mental disorder prevalence: evidence from a national sample, J Abnorm Psychol source
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“The data are equivocal, and most reviews have concluded that little evidence is available for increased risk of depression in the postpartum period [9,10].”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Distinctiveness of perinatal mental illness
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“During pregnancy, the brain is exposed to a 100-fold increase in oestradiol levels, which abruptly decrease in the first few postpartum days.”
§ Perinatal mental illness: Definition, description and aetiology > Causal factors > Biological underpinnings
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“The prevalence of maternal depression therefore depends on the definition and/or the tool used to diagnose PPD.3,6–8”
From Consequences of maternal postpartum depression: A systematic review of maternal and infant outcomes (2019) · cites this paper as [3]
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“Maternal PPD is prevalent, affecting up to 20 % of women within the first three months after childbirth (O'Hara and Wisner, 2014).”
From PandaMom – Feasibility and acceptability of an internet- and mobile-based intervention to enhance peripartum mental well-being and to prevent postpartum depression (2024) · cites this paper as O'Hara and Wisner, 2014
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“Risk factors for PND include stressful life events, history of depression, poor social support, unplanned and unwanted pregnancies, poor relationship quality, current or previous abuse, and low socioeconomic status.”
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“Factors with smaller associations included low socioeconomic status, single marital status, unintended pregnancy, obstetrical stressors, and an infant with a difficult temperament.19”
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“A 2014 review of the literature and existing meta-analyses revealed that the following factors have moderate to strong associations with PPD: history of depression, AND and antenatal anxiety, neurotic personality, low self-esteem, maternity blues, stressful life events, poor marital quality, and poor social support.19”
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Metadata
- Authors
- O'Hara, M. W., & Wisner, K. L.
- Affiliations
- Northwestern University (US)
- ORCID
- Wisner, Katherine L.
- Venue
- Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-01
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-12
- ISSN
- 1521-6934 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7077785
- OpenAlex
- W2071802871
- Cited by
- 986
- References
- 63
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH071825)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Obstetrics and Gynecology › Pregnancy-related medical research
- Keywords
- perinatal mental disorders, perinatal depression, perinatal anxiety, postpartum psychosis, bipolar disorder, postpartum blues, etiology, risk factors, screening, maternal mental health, offspring development
- MeSH terms
- Anxiety Disorders, Bipolar Disorder, Female, Humans, Mothers, Pregnancy, Depression, Postpartum, Peripartum Period
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-09-28, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-09-28 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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