Social support and antenatal depression in extended and nuclear family environments in Turkey: a cross-sectional survey

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Senturk V., Abas M., Berksun O., Stewart R.

BMC PSYCHIATRY, cilt.11, 2011 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 11
  • Basım Tarihi: 2011
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1186/1471-244x-11-48
  • Dergi Adı: BMC PSYCHIATRY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Background: Social support is strongly implicated in the aetiology of perinatal mental disorder: particularly the quality of the marital and family environment. Family structures are important under-researched potential modifiers. Turkey offers particular advantages for research in this area because of long-standing coexistence of Western and Middle Eastern family structures. We aimed to investigate associations between the quality of key relationships and depression in women in their third trimester of pregnancy, and the extent to which these associations were modified by family structure.