Videbech, P., & Gouliaev, G. (1995). First admission with puerperal psychosis: 7-14 years of follow-up. Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica, 91(3), 167-173. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1995.tb09761.x
Videbech P, Gouliaev G. First admission with puerperal psychosis: 7-14 years of follow-up. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1995;91(3):167-173. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1995.tb09761.x
Videbech, Poul, and G. Gouliaev. "First admission with puerperal psychosis: 7-14 years of follow-up." Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica, vol. 91, no. 3, 1995, pp. 167-173.
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The aim of this study was to investigate women who had first-episode psychosis within 1 year after parturition. The Danish Psychiatric Central Register and the Danish Medical Birth Register were linked to identify all women admitted for the first time to a psychiatric department in Arhus County with a psychotic episode. Fifty cases were found, giving a frequency of first-episode psychosis within 1 year after delivery of 1 per 1000. First-episode psychotic disease within the first month postpartum occurred in 1 case per 2000 deliveries. The age distribution corresponded to that of the background population, but the cases were primiparous more often than expected. The socioeconomic status was equal to that of a matched control group of obstetric patients. Birth complications did not occur more frequently than expected, but the probands had a higher risk of preterm delivery than the controls. The clinical picture of the index episode was that of manic-depressive psychosis in nearly half of the cases, but no cases of schizophrenia were found. Sixty percent of the patients had a picture of severe depression, and 20% suffered from manic disorder. The follow-up, 7 to 14 years later, was carried out by interviewing the general practitioners. Forty percent of the women had not preserved full working capacity due to mental disorder. Moreover, the follow-up pointed to schizophreniform symptoms at the index episode as a predictor of incapacity to work. Recurrences were very common (60%), especially of the nonpuerperal type, and half of the recurrences belonged to the manic-depressive disorders.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Schöpf J et al., 1994·Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci
A group of 119 patients suffering from a severe psychiatric postpartum disorder who were admitted for the first time in their life to a psychiatric hospital has been investigated. The onset of illness occurred within 3 months following delivery. The patients represented 92% of the total sample fulfilling the inclusion criteria. A follow-up investigation was performed after a mean of 21 years (range 2-35 years). Of the patients 66% had nonpuerperal psychotic episodes in later life. The diagnosis, taking into account the long-term course, was affective psychosis in 57%, schizoaffective psychosis in 18%, schizophreniform psychosis in 12%, brief reactive psychosis in 4% and schizophrenia in 9%. A bipolar psychosis was found in 31%. The relation of unipolar to bipolar psychoses corresponded to that in a control group of affectively ill women without puerperal onset. The frequency of a manic syndrome in bipolar psychoses at the index episode was the same as in nonpuerperal episodes, which does not suggest a mania-provoking pathoplastic effect of the puerperium. The comparison with female nonpuerperal controls matched for age and diagnosis revealed evidence of a better long-term course in the index patients. The risk of a puerperal relapse for further pregnancies was 35%. The global morbidity risk for functional psychoses in first-degree relatives was 11%, with affective psychoses representing the majority of secondary cases (6.8%). The index patients showed a nonsignificant lower morbidity risk in relatives than a control group of psychotically ill women without puerperal onset. The major aetiological factor found for postpartum psychoses is the relation of these disorders to functional psychoses. There is strong evidence that the postpartum period tends to provoke affective psychoses and other nonschizophrenic psychoses, but not, or only to a lesser degree, narrowly defined schizophrenias. The liability to puerperal decompensations suggests some common pathophysiological mechanism, the nature of which remains unknown.
Thirty cases of post-partum psychotic disorders occurred between 1973 and 1987 and hospitalized at the Psychiatric Ward of Florence University were studied and followed up. A structured diagnostic interview was used, which explored DSM Ill-R diagnosis both for mood disorders and for psychotic features. The psychotic symptoms had started within 8 weeks of parturition in all cases. Only 36.7% of the patients showed no subsequent pathology after the puerperal symptoms. The diagnoses, both at the index episode and at the follow-up, revealed a great predominance of mood disorders and the absence of schizophrenia. The follow-up survey showed a greater proportion of bipolar disorders than it appeared at the puerperal onset of the disease. A high frequency of puerperal psychotic relapses has also occurred after subsequent deliveries during the follow-up period.
Fifty-eight psychoses beginning within two weeks of childbirth are compared with 52 episodes of nonpuerperal psychotic illness occurring in young women. A clinical approach based on the use of multiple information sources and integrated assessment was used. Statistically significant differences between the two groups of patients were found in 52 of 214 psychopathological variables. Postpartum patients had more manic symptoms and "confusion," while nonpuerperal patients had more schizophrenic symptoms. The Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) showed an excess of schizoaffective (manic) puerperal patients and schizoaffective (depressed) or schizophrenic nonpuerperal patients. Only five of 58 puerperal episodes met RDC for schizophrenia. The relative lack of schizophrenic symptoms in the puerperal group was confirmed by self-ratings. The results are interpreted as supporting a link between puerperal psychosis and manic-depressive disease.
We interviewed 128 women regularly during pregnancy and the first postnatal year. Psychiatric interviews identified eight 'cases' of psychiatric disorder (6 per cent) in early pregnancy and twenty 'cases' (16 per cent) at six weeks after birth. Postnatal affective disorder, which accounted for 15 of these cases, was significantly associated with dissatisfaction with the marital relationship and also with previous psychiatric history. The implications of the term 'postnatal depression' are considered in terms of the course of the disorder in the 29 women (23 per cent) who had episodes of affective disorder at some time during pregnancy and the postnatal year. We found that the majority of episodes of affective disorder could be understood in terms of previous psychiatric history and/or reaction to life-events, including the stress of childbirth itself.
Postpartum › Mental Health › Postpartum Depression
PMID 7625190 7625190 DOI 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1995.tb09761.x 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1995.tb09761.x Videbech et al. 1995, Videbech 1995
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Videbech, P., & Gouliaev, G. (1995). First admission with puerperal psychosis: 7-14 years of follow-up. Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica, 91(3), 167-173. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1995.tb09761.x
Videbech P, Gouliaev G. First admission with puerperal psychosis: 7-14 years of follow-up. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1995;91(3):167-173. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1995.tb09761.x
Videbech, Poul, and G. Gouliaev. "First admission with puerperal psychosis: 7-14 years of follow-up." Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica, vol. 91, no. 3, 1995, pp. 167-173.
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