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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST CR0xvM7p. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Study objective-To analyse the relation between unemployment and the psychological distress of mothers one year after childbirth. Design-Multicentric survey concerning births occurring between September 1993 and July 1994. Setting-In France : two maternity units in the Parisian area and one in Champagne-Ardennes, in the east of France, comprising both urban and rural areas. Participants-Primipara and secondipara women were interviewed three times : at birth by a face to face interview, five months and 12 months after the birth, by postal questionnaires, with a 83% response rate for the two postal questionnaires. The analysis includes 632 women who answered all three stages of the survey. Measurements-Psychological distress was mainly assessed one year after birth by the 12-item General Health Questionnaire. Results-After adjustment for unwanted pregnancy, marital conflicts, marital status, hospitalisation of the baby during the last year, lack of confiding relationship, depressive or anxious troubles before pregnancy, age, educational level and parity, unemployed women had an excess of psychological distress compared with employed women (OR=1.87 ; 95% CI=1.12,3.13). The ratios for housewives were very close to those of employed women. Among the unemployed women, 60% had recently been without a job, since a few months before or after the birth. (...)
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