Depression, depressive symptoms and treatments in women who have recently given birth: UK cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate how depression is recognised in the year after child birth and treatment given in clinical practice.

Design

Cohort study based on UK primary care electronic health records.

Setting

Primary care.

Participants

Women who have given live birth between 2000 and 2013.

Outcomes

Prevalence of postnatal depression, depression diagnoses, depressive symptoms, antidepressant and non-pharmacological treatment within a year after birth.

Results

Of 206 517 women, 23 623 (11%) had a record of depressive diagnosis or symptoms in the year after delivery and more than one in eight women received antidepressant treatment. Recording and treatment peaked 6-8 weeks after delivery. Initiation of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) tre

SUBMITTER: Petersen I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6224756 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature