[Postpartum depression: prevalence and risk factors. A prospective Study concerning 302 Tunisian parturients].

Background: Depression is a common condition especially in the postpartum. It exposes mothers, newborns and couples for psychosocial complications.

Aims: They were to estimate the prevalence of the depression in postpartum in a population of 302 Tunisian parturients and to identify its associated factors.

[Evaluation of depression in elderly people living in nursing homes: a study involving 35 people].

Background: Depression in the elderly is often inadequately diagnosed and insufficiently treated. Regardless of the nature of the depression, the influence and the impact of the biological, situational, social and psychological factors would be more important in old subjects than in young ones when the disorder occurs. The nursing home, as an institution, is another factor facilitating the appearance of depression.