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SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 5, Pages 413-423Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-010-0206-2
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Leverton questionnaire; Postpartum depression; Multiple logistic regression; Effects of social changes; Hungary
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- National Institute for Health Research [CL-2007-14-005] Funding Source: researchfish
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To determine contributing psychosocial factors to postnatal depression (PND) in Hungary in 1996 and in 2006. In 1996 and 2006, a total of 2,333 and 1,619 women, respectively, were screened for PND in South-Eastern Hungary, based on a Leverton questionnaire (LQ) score of a parts per thousand yen12 at 6-10 weeks after delivery. The LQ scores indicated an increase in PND from 15.0% in 1996 to 17.4% in 2006. The best predictors for PND in a multiple regression analysis were living in an urban environment [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 11.26], unstable relationship (AOR = 3.1) and a perceived lack of social support from partner (AOR = 3.65) in 1996, and recent major life events (AOR = 3.38), unstable relationship (AOR = 3.84), self-reported low income (AOR = 1.82), and intention to return to work soon after delivery (AOR = 0.47) in 2006. A self-defined low socioeconomic status and an intention to return to work have become significant factors in the development of PND. Besides the family factors recognized as salient variables in 1996, economic features came into prominence as newly identified main predictive factors for PND in 2006.
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