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Depressed mood, anxiety, and the use of labor analgesia.
Archives of women's mental health - 1 Feb 2016
Pettersson Fatimah Dabo, Hellgren Charlotte, Nyberg Fred, Åkerud Helena, Sundström-Poromaa Inger
Abstract excerpt
Relatively little is known about mental health and labor pain. The aim of this study was to assess if self-rated antenatal depressed mood and anxiety are associated with pain-related behaviors and self-reported labor pain. We also wanted to replicate our previous finding of altered labor pain behavior in carriers of a specific guanosine triphosphate cyclohydrolase 1 gene (GCH1) haplotype. Ninety-nine women in...
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