ScientificWorldJournal. 2007 Oct 22;7:1670-82.

Depression after delivery: risk factors, diagnostic and therapeutic considerations.
Scrandis DA, Sheikh TM, Niazi R, Tonelli LH, Postolache TT.

Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, MSTF Building, Room 502, 685 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Postpartum mood disorders can negatively affect women, their offspring, and their families when left untreated. The identification and treatment of postpartum depression remains problematic since health care providers may often not differentiate postpartum blues from depression onset. Recent studies found potentially new risk factors, etiologies, and treatments; thus, possibly improving the untreated postpartum depression rates. This integrated review examined several postpartum psychiatric disorders, postpartum blues, generalized anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and postpartum psychosis for current findings on prevalence, etiologies, risk factors, and postpartum depression treatments.