new YORK (Reuters Health) – in a new study, the

women with postpartum depression were more likely than the rest

to have a violent, while mothers relationship

new victims of abuse were also more prone to

develop postpartum depression.

“intuitively and clinically, this overlap of the

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depression and domestic violence is not surprising”, said the

Dr. Linda Chaudron, Professor of Psychiatry at the Center

Doctor of the University of Rochester, who did not participate in the

study.

Even so, these results are a guide for doctors to

control women with signs of depression postpartum or one

violet relationship.

“the message we want to send is: If pediatricians

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they began to detect one of these two signs and identify one,

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should control the other”, believed the doctor Barry Solomon,

Professor of Paediatrics of Centre for children of John ' s Hopkins and

the study’s main author.

In recent years, pediatricians adopted the routine of

control depression postpartum and domestic violence in the

women who consult with their babies.

“there is growing evidence that depression maternal o

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domestic violence negatively affect children”, said

Solomon.

One in 14 women

The team of Solomon took advantage of frequent consultations of

first-time mothers to pediatricians to determine what

frequency agreed domestic violence and depression.

In February 2008, the authors began to control to the

mothers of infants less than six months that contesting to the

clinic for routine controls.

The majority of women were African-American; a third of

of them were teenagers.

As they revealed the survey respondents, one of each

four mothers had signs of depression postpartum and one of 14

had a violent relationship.

More than 50 percent of the participants with a relationship

violent couple I had depression postpartum, compared with 22

percent of women without a violent relationship.

And women with postpartum depression were four times more

prone to achieve positive results in the evaluation of the

signs of domestic violence.

The 4 percent of women without depression and 16 by

cent of women with depression had relationships

violent.

The team could not determine whether one caused the other. For

Chaudron, the Association could go in both directions.

The study, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, also

revealed that women with postpartum depression were prone to

bring their babies to an emergency department with

frequency. For Chaudron, these mothers would be felt more anxiety

than the rest.

The challenge with these women who need help is to achieve

that most pediatricians monitor signs of postpartum depression and

domestic violence.

Source: Journal of Pediatrics, online March 8, 2012