Anxiety and Depression in Teenage Mothers : A Com- parative Study
VINADDA PlY ASIL, M.D.*
Affiliation : *Department of Child Psychiatry, Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.
Abstract A cross-sectional design study was done at a non-private ward at Rajvithi Hospital from June to August 1995 to determine the prevalence of anxiety and depressive state in Thai teenage mothers (::;; 18 years old) compared with adult control mothers (20-35 years old). We found that 15 per cent of teenage mothers and 12 per cent of adult control mothers had anxiety state. Twenty- three per cent of teenage mothers and 11.9 per cent of adult control mothers had depressive state. There was a significantly higher prevalence rate of depression in teenage mothers compared to adult control mothers.
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