Psychiatric disorders following fetal death: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Women have increased risks of severe mental disorders after childbirth and death of a child, but it remains unclear whether this association also applies to fetal loss and, if so, to which extent. We studied the risk of any inpatient or outpatient psychiatric treatment during the time period from 12 months before to 12 months after fetal death.

Design

Cohort study using Danish population-based registers.

Setting

Denmark.

Participants

A total of 1 112 831 women born in Denmark from 1960 to 1995 were included. In total, 87 687cases of fetal death (International Classification of Disease-10 codes for spontaneous abortion or stillbirth) were recorded between 1996 and 2010.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The main outcome measures were incid

SUBMITTER: Munk-Olsen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4054628 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature