Bipolar disorder in pregnancy and childbirth: a systematic review of outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a mental disorder usually diagnosed between 18 and 30 years of age; this coincides with the period when many women experience pregnancy and childbirth. As specific problems have been reported in pregnancy and childbirth when the mother has BD, a systematic review was carried out to summarise the outcomes of pregnancy and childbirth, in mother and child, when the mother has BD diagnosed before pregnancy.

Methods

An a priori protocol was designed and a systematic search conducted in PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, PsycINFO and Cochrane databases in March 2015. Studies of all designs were included if they involved women with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder prior to pregnancy, who were pregnant and/or followed up to one year postpartum. All stages of

SUBMITTER: Rusner M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5084442 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature