Journal of Psychiatry

Assessment of premenstrual syndrome as a risk factor for acquiring depression with post-partum onset in Khartoum state hospitals

Annual Congress on Mental Health

July 09-11, 2018 | Paris, France

Nahid M Elhassan

Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Psychiatry

Abstract:

Background: Depression with post-partum onset is a serious mental health problem that has been a highly conspicuous public health concern with prevalence of major and minor depressions reaching 20% in the first three postpartum months. However, information on the relationship between premenstrual disorders and the development of post-partum depression (PPD) is not well established. Aim: Aim of this research was to assess premenstrual syndrome (PMS) as a risk factor for acquiring depression with post-partum onset in Khartoum, Sudan from September 2014-February 2015. Method: Through an observational case finding in hospital based study, using the premenstrual symptoms screening tool (PSST) and Beck�??s Depression Rating Scale (BDRS), the study was done. Prevalence, association and relative risk ratios for women with depression with post-partum onset and PMS, were calculated using multinomial logistic regression and cross tabulation. Results: An association and a relative risk ratio were computed between PMS and depression with post-partum onset. The prevalence of moderate-severe PMS among the study population (79 depressed patients with post-partum onset) was found to be 65 cases (82.3%). This finding was found mainly among the moderate-severe depression range, 25.3% and 55.7% respectively. For moderate PMS, the prevalence was found to be 58.2% while the prevalence of severe PMS was found to be 24.1%. Also mild PMS prevalence was found to be 11.4%. Only 6.3% of the cases did not have any PMS symptoms, which were found to have mainly mild-borderline depression. Different risk factors for acquiring depression with post-partum onset (previous history of post-partum depression, absence of social support, marital instability, not planning for pregnancy) were found to be significantly associated risk factors, yet PMS has been the leading risk factor. Conclusion: The current results suggested that each of PMS and depression with post-partum onset has their own presentations and characteristics individually. Despite their differences in illness, they however possibly to co-occur, PMS being a significant risk factor for depression.

Biography :

Nahid M Elhassan has completed her MBBS and MD in Psychiatry. She won award of William Friedrich Memorial Child Sexual Abuse Research, Assessment &/or Treatment Award from Family Violence & Sexual Assault Institute and Institute on Violence, Abuse & Trauma (2016). In 2015, she served as President of Psychiatric Department in University of Medical Science and Technology, Qatar. Currently, she is working as a Doctor at Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar.

E-mail: nhfadul@gmail.com