Frequency of depression among hospitalized pregnant females for obstetrics risk

Aim: to assess the frequency of depression among pregnant females with obstetric risk presenting in a tertiary care hospital. setting: department of obstetrics and gynaecology,lady willington hospital,lahore duration: six months from july 2014 to december 2014 study design: cross sectional study sample size; sample size of 230 patients is calculated with 95% confidence level,5% margin of error and taking expected percentage of prenatal depression i.e.,18% among pregnant females with obstetric risk. sampling technique: non probability,purposive sampling procedure pregnant females fulfilling the inclusion criteria were included in the study. an informed consent was taken. demographic details were obtained and the females were interviewed by using epds questionnaire. patients were marked as positive for depression at epds score ≥11. the information was recorded on proforma and data was stratified for obstetrics risks i.e. pih,preeclampsia,prom,gestational diabetes etc. results: in the study the mean age of the pregnant women was 28.03±7.11 years. the mean gestational age was 26.37±7.67 weeks. most of (23.5%) the patients presented were para 2. the mean epd score of 230 patients was 14.88±8.64 with minimum and maximum values of 1 & 30 respectively. out of 230 patients the depression was observed in 60% patients with obstetric risk. hypertension was found in 53.48%,pre-eclampsia in 9.6% patients,gestational diabetes in 46.96% patients and prom was observed in 80.43% patients. conclusion: in our study results the depression was found in maximum number of patients who had obstetrics risk. now in future,we will plan to avoid such risks to avoid depression. © 2016,lahore medical and dental college. all rights reserved.