HONG KONG (Reuters) – the 40 per cent of women
suffering from depression after giving birth are abused physical or
emotionally by their partners, they reported Wednesday
researchers from Australia, who urged workers
health care to be more attentive to the issue.
“This is a very important takeaway message to the
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medical professionals”, said Hannah Woolhouse, Institute of
Child research Murdoch in Victoria, Australia.
“If you are working with a woman with postpartum depression,
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should consider the possibility that domestic violence
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may be contributing to this”, he added.
Possible solutions include offering
treatment the couple abusive advice from
couple, or even to provide asylum for battered women, indicated the
expert for an interview telephone
In his study of 1,305 new mothers, Woolhouse and
colleagues found 210, or 16 percent, had developed
depression in the 12 months following the birth of their
children.
“About 40 percent of women who reported
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depressive symptoms also reported partner violence”,
wrote researchers in an article published in BJOG:
An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
After having taken into account other possible reasons such as age
and unemployment, the risk of experiencing postpartum depression was
three times greater in women suffering from abuse emotional,
purchased with those not suffering from any kind of abuse,
noted authors.
The risk was four times higher among mothers than
they experienced abuse physicist.
“The emotional abuse is much more common than physical abuse
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(…) and is also harmful”, said Woolhouse.
Research also revealed that the majority of the
women reported depression more than six months after the
childbirth.
“In Australia and United Kingdom, the control of the depression
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takes place in the first months after birth, by the
probably lost more than half of the cases of
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depression”, stated Woolhouse.
“Would be recommending that professionals indaguen
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regularly in women on mental well-being and
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emotional”, ended the researcher.
