PREVENTION OF POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION DEVELOPMENT IN WOMEN WITH VERY HIGH RISK

Inclusion Criteria

• •1. General criteria for inclusion in the study:
• •1. Pregnant women in the 3rd quarter. In the case of inclusion of children in the study were notified each case their participation to the Department.
• •2. Signature of informed consent.
• •1. Submitted one or more risk factor for developing postpartum depression:
• •* Depressive or anxious pathology during pregnancy.
• •* Personal history of severe mental disorder (schizophrenia and other psychoses, bipolar disorder, depressive disorder).
• •* Family history of severe mental disorder.
• •* Concomitant medical diseases associated with depression (diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, obesity).
• •* Low or very low socioeconomic status.
• •* Lack of support for women (couples, family, friends or others).
• •2. Submit a score ≥7.5 in the EPDS questionnaire. According Vega-Dienstmainer (Vega-Diesnstmainer JM, 2002), there weren't women with lower score than 7.5 that had been diagnosed with DPP (sensitivity and positive predictive value of 100%). Therefore, we considered selecting those patients with higher score of 7.5 on the EPDS scale.