Post-partum psychiatric care in India: the need for integration and innovation.

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Brockington emphasises the need for clinicians and researchers to recognise that post-partum psychiatric syndromes go beyond the traditionally accepted triad. There are several distinct clinical conditions that have now been recognised, each with different aetiologies, course, methods of diagnosis and management. In this regard, research in post-partum psychiatric disorders in India, though limited, has followed two parallel streams. Community-based studies have focussed mainly on post-partum depression (PPD), while hospital-based studies have focussed mainly on clinical descriptions of post-partum psychosis. The last few years have seen an increase in epidemiological data on PPD in India (1, 2). These studies have been extremely important in estimating the prevalence and identifying risk factors for the disorder and have also highlighted specific cultural and social factors that increase risk for the disorder in India. Two prospective studies on pregnant women, in the states of

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