研究發現孕期抑鬱症比產後更常見

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新的研究表明,孕期抑鬱症比產後抑鬱症更為常見。這項研究結果發表在本週的《英國醫學雜誌》上。

布里斯托大學的喬納森·埃文斯及其同事分析了超過9000名孕婦的情緒波動,這些孕婦記錄了她們在孕期和產後的精神狀態。該團隊對照公認的抑鬱量表測量了所有報告的抑鬱症狀。他們發現,與普遍認為懷孕可以預防抑鬱症的觀點相反,抑鬱評分實際上在孕期達到峰值,大約在32周左右。作者指出,由於症狀的嚴重程度在分娩前後沒有差異,因此產前抑鬱症在產後可能並不比孕期更常見。

儘管其後果尚未完全明確,但產前抑鬱症可能對胎兒產生負面影響。事實上,孕期抑鬱情緒與其他因素有關,如低出生體重和早產。因此,作者指出,識別和治療孕期抑鬱症可能不僅對母親重要,而且對孩子未來的健康也至關重要。

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大眾科學 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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