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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Effects of postpartum psychiatric illnesses on family planning.

AUTHORS

Peindl KS; Wisner KL; Zolnik EJ; Hanusa BH

SOURCE

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY IN MEDICINE. 1995;25(3):291-300.

ABSTRACT

268 women who had suffered from postpartum psychiatric illness and lived in Pennsylvania completed a

questionnaire designed to allow researchers examine how these women's experience of postpartum psychiatric

illness affected family plans. These women comprised 40% of those who responded to a mail-in survey. The

researchers also aimed to determine what factors influenced change in the number of children desired. They

identified two groups: women who claimed that postpartum psychiatric illness did not affect their family planning

decisions (NO CHANGE) and those who took action after the postpartum episode to prevent future pregnancies

(CHANGE). The CHANGE group comprised 32% of the respondents. In both groups, the leading psychiatric

diagnosis by far was depression. Women in the CHANGE group were significantly more likely to be hospitalized for

the postpartum episode than those in the NO CHANGE group (28% vs. 14%; p = 0.006). Hospitalized women were

more likely to suffer impairment in functioning than non-hospitalized women (p = 0.0001). Women who had received

psychopharmacological treatment were less likely to suffer impairment in functioning than those who did not receive

this treatment (p = 0.0001). Women in the CHANGE group were more likely to have attempted suicide or infanticide

than those in the NO CHANGE group (11% vs. 3%; p = 0.009). They were less likely to be prescribed medication than

the NO CHANGE group (27% vs. 54%; p = 0.002), suggesting that the medication may have decreased the intensity

of the episode and therefore contributed to the NO CHANGE group's willingness to plan other pregnancies. Other

factors influencing changes in family planning decisions were treatment costs (19% for CHANGE vs. 8% for NO

CHANGE; p = 0.019), fear of recurrence (79% vs. 68%; p = 0.048), family anguish (58% vs. 37%; p = 0.003), and being

worried about the effects on the mother/baby relationship (30% vs. 15%; p = 0.006). 85% of the women did not

receive any recommendations from health providers on how to prevent recurrence of subsequent postpartum

episodes. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2570-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Effects of postpartum psychiatric illnesses on family

planning.", is(are) Peindl KS; Wisner KL; Zolnik EJ; Hanusa BH. The source of this article is "INTERNATIONAL

JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY IN MEDICINE. 1995;25(3):291-300.". This article was published in 1995 in English

language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 2570-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 7570

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