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The British Journal of Psychiatry 151: 368-372 (1987)
© 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

The maternity blues in post-partum and post-operative women

V Levy
Department of Midwifery Education, Royal Cornwall Hospital (Treliske), Truro.

In order to establish whether the maternity blues is peculiar to the puerperium a self-rating blues questionnaire was administered to women after childbirth and after surgery. A period of dysphoria, similar in many respects to the maternity blues, was experienced by women post- operatively. The main difference between maternity and post-operative patterns of dysphoria seemed to lie in the timing of the blues, but on closer analysis many post-operative dysphoric symptoms peaked in a similar way to those in the maternity group. In the search for the cause of the maternity blues it may be helpful to study the same parameters in post-operative dysphoria.




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