Ethnoepidemiology of postnatal depression
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Ethnoepidemiology of postnatal depression. Prospective multivariate study of sociocultural risk factors in a Chinese population in Hong Kong.
BACKGROUND Although there have been many studies of the biological and psychosocial causations of postnatal depression, studies of sociocultural risk factors are rare. AIMS To investigate the sociocultural risk factors of postnatal depression using ethnographically informed epidemiological methods. METHOD A total of 959 women were assessed at their first ante-partum visit (baseline), in the...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.184.1.34