Arch Womens Ment Health DOI 10.1007/s00737-015-0552-x
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Suicidality among pregnant women in Brazil: prevalence and risk factors Tiago Castro e Couto 1,3 & Mayra Yara Martins Brancaglion 1 & Mauro Nogueira Cardoso 1 & Gustavo Coutinho Faria 1 & Frederico Duarte Garcia 1,3,4 & Rodrigo Nicolato 1,3,4 & Regina Amélia Lopes P. Aguiar 2 & Henrique Vitor Leite 2 & Humberto Corrêa 1,3,4
Received: 12 May 2015 / Accepted: 8 July 2015 # Springer-Verlag Wien 2015
Abstract Suicide is one of the major causes of preventable death. We evaluated suicidality among pregnant women who participated in prenatal care in Brazil. A total of 255 patients were assessed using semi-structured interviews as well as the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) Plus. Thereafter, Stata 12 was used to identify the significant predictors of current suicide risk (CSR) among participants using univariate and multivariate analyses (p
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Suicidality among pregnant women in Brazil: prevalence and risk factors Tiago Castro e Couto 1,3 & Mayra Yara Martins Brancaglion 1 & Mauro Nogueira Cardoso 1 & Gustavo Coutinho Faria 1 & Frederico Duarte Garcia 1,3,4 & Rodrigo Nicolato 1,3,4 & Regina Amélia Lopes P. Aguiar 2 & Henrique Vitor Leite 2 & Humberto Corrêa 1,3,4
Received: 12 May 2015 / Accepted: 8 July 2015 # Springer-Verlag Wien 2015
Abstract Suicide is one of the major causes of preventable death. We evaluated suicidality among pregnant women who participated in prenatal care in Brazil. A total of 255 patients were assessed using semi-structured interviews as well as the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) Plus. Thereafter, Stata 12 was used to identify the significant predictors of current suicide risk (CSR) among participants using univariate and multivariate analyses (p
