Ileana Enătescu1, Marius Craina2, Adrian Gluhovschi2, Cătălina Giurgi-Oncu3, Lavinia Hogea4, Laura Alexandra Nussbaum5, Elena Bernad2, Mihaela Simu6, Doina Cosman7, Daniela Iacob1, Ileana Marinescu8, Virgil Radu Enătescu3. 1. Discipline of Child Care and Neonatology, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania. 2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania. 3. Discipline of Psychiatry, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania. 4. Discipline of Psychology, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania. 5. Discipline of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania. 6. Discipline of Neurology, "Victor Babes, " University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania. 7. Discipline of Medical Psychology, Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 8. Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Craiova, Craiova, Romania.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Increasing amount of data reveal that suicide risk is a real phenomenon among perinatal women, determined by several other psychopathological conditions with depression being just one of them. This study aimed to investigate the role of personality dimensions on the occurrence of suicide ideation during the perinatal period. METHODS: A longitudinal prospective study was performed in pregnant women who were monitored at university-based obstetrical care units in our county. Recruited women were reassessed between 6 and 8 weeks into their postnatal period. Trait and state anxiety, five-factor based dimensions of personality, and depressive symptoms were assessed using established psychometric measures. Appropriate statistical analyses were conducted, depending on the distribution of variables. RESULTS: Significant levels of state anxiety (33.7% vs. 15.5%), depressive symptoms (19.8% vs. 8.5%), and suicide risk (13.9% vs. 6.3%) have halved in the postnatal period compared to the antenatal assessment. A lower level of education was associated with the presence of postnatal suicide ideation (p = .041), while an unemployed professional status was more frequent in pregnant women presenting antenatal suicide ideation (p = .021). Trait anxiety was predictive for the appearance of suicide ideation within the entire perinatal period assessed (p < .001 and p = .007, respectively). Agreeableness and conscientiousness predicted antenatal suicide ideation (p = .033 and p = .032, respectively). DISCUSSIONS: Different dimensions of personality may play a contributing role in the development of suicide ideation in perinatal women. Consequently, personality dimensions and trait anxiety, not only depressive symptoms, should be investigated when attempting to identify perinatal women at risk of suicide.
INTRODUCTION: Increasing amount of data reveal that suicide risk is a real phenomenon among perinatal women, determined by several other psychopathological conditions with depression being just one of them. This study aimed to investigate the role of personality dimensions on the occurrence of suicide ideation during the perinatal period. METHODS: A longitudinal prospective study was performed in pregnant women who were monitored at university-based obstetrical care units in our county. Recruited women were reassessed between 6 and 8 weeks into their postnatal period. Trait and state anxiety, five-factor based dimensions of personality, and depressive symptoms were assessed using established psychometric measures. Appropriate statistical analyses were conducted, depending on the distribution of variables. RESULTS: Significant levels of state anxiety (33.7% vs. 15.5%), depressive symptoms (19.8% vs. 8.5%), and suicide risk (13.9% vs. 6.3%) have halved in the postnatal period compared to the antenatal assessment. A lower level of education was associated with the presence of postnatal suicide ideation (p = .041), while an unemployed professional status was more frequent in pregnant women presenting antenatal suicide ideation (p = .021). Trait anxiety was predictive for the appearance of suicide ideation within the entire perinatal period assessed (p < .001 and p = .007, respectively). Agreeableness and conscientiousness predicted antenatal suicide ideation (p = .033 and p = .032, respectively). DISCUSSIONS: Different dimensions of personality may play a contributing role in the development of suicide ideation in perinatal women. Consequently, personality dimensions and trait anxiety, not only depressive symptoms, should be investigated when attempting to identify perinatal women at risk of suicide.
Authors: Ana Maria Pah; Nicoleta Florina Buleu; Anca Tudor; Ruxandra Christodorescu; Dana Velimirovici; Stela Iurciuc; Maria Rada; Gheorghe Stoichescu-Hogea; Marius Badalica-Petrescu; Doina Georgescu; Dorina Nutiu; Mircea Iurciuc; Simona Dragan Journal: Brain Sci Date: 2020-05-22