Dependent Personality, Mindful Awareness, and Marital Satisfaction and their Association with Postpartum Psychological Distress in Two Tertiary Hospitals, Southeast Nigeria.

This study assessed dependent personality, marital satisfaction, and mindful awareness and their association with postpartum depression and anxiety. It was a cross-sectional study of nursing mothers, within 6-14 weeks postpartum, at the postnatal and children's welfare clinics of two tertiary hospitals in Enugu, southeastern Nigeria. The nursing mothers responded to different questionnaires that measure each of these variables.

Socio-demographic correlates of postpartum psychological distress among apparently healthy mothers in two tertiary hospitals in Enugu, South-East Nigeria.

Background: Postpartum depression and anxiety could cause poor mother-infant relationship that could impair infant growth and cognitive development. Psychiatric assessment has not been part of periodic evaluations in postnatal clinics. Some apparently well, but high-risk mothers continue to live with psychological distress, without treatment to relieve their burden.

Clinical and Socio-Demographic Profile of Women with Post-Partum Psychiatric Conditions at a Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Southeast Nigeria between 2009 and 2011.

Background: Pregnancy and labor in areas with high maternal morbidities as in Nigeria could be sufficiently stressful to precipitate mental disorders in women after delivery, which may be a new or a relapse of previously existing one, or an exacerbation of an attenuated mental illness in the nursing mother. Mental illness in a nursing mother, if not treated may result in impaired mother-infant relationship.

Aim: To determine the clinical and socio-demographic characteristics of women diagnosed with postpartum psychiatric conditions in a tertiary mental health facility of a developing country.

Knowledge of conversion disorder in children by pediatricians in a developing country.

Introduction: Conversion disorder (CD) in children presents the clinician with a diagnostic and treatment dilemma. Mistaking a physical condition for CD carries serious consequences for the child while continued investigation in line with physical disease in a child with CD also may expose the child to serious harm.

Materials And Methods: One hundred and seventy-four consenting doctors who attended a national conference of pediatricians were administered a 10 item questionnaire developed by the researchers.