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Post-partum Psychosis in the Assir Region of Saudi Arabia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

I. H. Shoeb  and
G. A. Hassan
I. H. Shoeb*
Affiliation:
Abha Psychiatric Hospital, Abha, Assir Region, Saudi Arabia, Department of Psychiatry, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, Riding House Street, London W1N 8AA
G. A. Hassan
Affiliation:
Abha Psychiatric Hospital, Abha, Assir Region, Saudi Arabia, Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley, Surrey
*
∗Correspondence
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The medical notes of 91 women who had a psychiatric illness requiring admission within nine months of childbirth were studied. The incidence of post-partum psychosis was 3 per 1000 births, of which 66% were affective psychoses.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 157 , Issue 3 , September 1990 , pp. 427 - 430
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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