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Much of the general background for the study that will be described in this monograph has been presented in chapters 1 and 2. In the first part of this chapter, the background for the specific questions that we addressed will be sketched. These include: (1) What is the prevalence of mood disorders during pregnancy and the Puerperium relative to nonchild-bearing periods? (2) In what ways do childbearing and nonchildbearing women differ psychologically when followed longitudinally? (3) What factors put women at risk for depression during pregnancy and for the blues and depression after delivery? In the second part of this chapter, the methods that we employed in this study will be outlined.
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O’Hara, M.W. (1995). Background and Methods. In: Postpartum Depression. Series in Psychopathology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-25166-9_3
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