This is a snapshot of birth conditions in France, taken every five years for about thirty years. The 2021 Inserm-Public Health France national perinatal survey, conducted among 12,723 women in mainland France (results from overseas territories to come later), has just been published. This 6e The publication has the peculiarity that it was carried out with women who gave birth in March 2021, that is, in the conditions of the Covid epidemic.
It also features a new component dedicated to monitoring women and their babies two months after birth. Specifically, it found that 16.7% of women had symptoms of postpartum depression (based on the EPDS rating scale) and that an additional 12.6% had some of these symptoms.
Necessary effort
Data: “basics” Honorary Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Paris Cite, for Dr. Antoine Guedeni, a specialist in this pathology. “Finally! Some countries, such as the UK, have…
Source: Le Figaro
