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The British Journal of Psychiatry 155: 363-366 (1989)
© 1989 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Maternity blues. II. A comparison between post-operative women and post- natal women

S Iles, D Gath and H Kennerley
University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford.

A new scale for the detection and assessment of maternity blues was completed by 56 women daily for ten days after elective gynaecological surgery. When their responses were compared with those of 87 post-natal women, they differed significantly in frequencies of different symptoms at different times. The findings suggest that post-natal mood changes ('maternity blues') are characteristic of the puerperium and not simply non-specific reactions to physical and emotional stress.




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