ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care2025
Prevalence and risk factors of postpartum psychiatric illness in Sub-Himalaya hilly region: A community-based cross-sectional study.
Article in Journal of family medicine and primary care, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Perinatal mental health disorders affect maternal and child health significantly. It can manifest as postpartum blues, postnatal depression or a more severe form as postpartum psychosis. Mostly, postpartum mental health disorders remain undiagnosed and untreated and there is paucity of data on the true prevalence of these disorders in the community. Methods: The present study has been conducted as a community-based cross-sectional study on postpartum and post-abortion women in the sub-Himalayan hilly area of India. The main objective of the study was to know the prevalence of perinatal mental health disorders and it's risk factors in the community through structured questionnaires and interviews during the postpartum period. Edinburgh postnatal depression scale (EPDS) and Bebbington and Nayani questionnaire were used to screen for depression and postpartum psychosis, respectively. Results: A total of 526 eligible participants were screened, and the overall prevalence of perinatal mental health disorders in our study was 31% (163/525), with 16% (85/525) having postpartum blues and 15% (78/525) having postpartum depression. Among the obstetric factors, having a preterm delivery was found to be associated with increased chances of postpartum depression. (14% vs 8%, Conclusion: The study elaborates on the prevalence of perinatal mental illness in our community and various risk factors affecting the chances of women having these problems. Delivery of a preterm baby was found to be associated with increased chances of postpartum depression.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.