Post Partum Psychosis: a Clinical Study

P. Agrawal, M.S. Bhatia and S.C. Malik

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1997, vol. 43, issue 3, 217-222

Abstract: In this study of 192 cases of post partum psychosis, the mean age of cases was 24.2 years. A past history of post partum psychosis was present in 16 cases (8.3%). As per the RDC categories, a majority of patients had unspecified functional psychosis and developed psychosis after the birth of first child. There was a positive correlation between the birth of female child and psychosis. The majority of cases developed psychosis within first 2 weeks after delivery. There were several other statistically significant differences when these cases were compared with non-puerperal, disease-matched controls.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1177/002076409704300308

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