The increased trend in mothers’ hospital admissions for psychiatric disorders in the first year after birth between 2001 and 2010 in New South Wales, Australia

BMC Women's Health

Research Article

Elizabeth A Sullivan¹  Zhuoyang Li¹  Tim Slade²  Fenglian Xu²  Lucy Burns²  Marie-Paule Austin³ 

[1] Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia;National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, 2031, Sydney, NSW, Australia;Perinatal and Women’s Mental Health Unit, St John of God Health Care and School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, NSW, Australia;

关键词: Mental health;    Increasing trend;    Postpartum;    Data linkage;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6874-14-119

 received in 2014-05-20, accepted in 2014-09-23,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe burden of mental and behavioural disorders in Australia has increased significantly over the last decade. The aim of the current study is to describe the hospital admission rates for mental illness over a 10-year period for primiparous mothers in the first year after birth.MethodsThis is an Australian population-based descriptive study with linked data from the New South Wales Midwives Data Collection and Admitted Patients Data Collection. The study population included primiparous mothers who gave birth between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2010. All hospital admissions with a mental health diagnosis in the first year after birth were recorded.ResultsThere were 6,140 mothers (1.67%) admitted to hospital with a principal diagnosis of mental health in the first year after birth between 2001 and 2010 in New South Wales (7,884 admissions, 2.15%). The hospital admission rates increased significantly over time, particularly from 2005. The increase in hospital admissions was mainly attributed to the diagnoses of unipolar depression, adjustment disorders and anxiety disorders.ConclusionsThis study shows that hospital admissions for mothers with a mental health diagnosis after birth in New South Wales has significantly increased in the last decade. Possible reasons for this change need to be studied further.

【 授权许可】

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