Psychological distress among women with recurrent spontaneous abortion

Susan C. Klock; Grace Chang; Ashlyn Hiley; Joseph Hill

doi:10.1016/S0033-3182(97)71428-2

Psychological distress among women with recurrent spontaneous abortion

Susan C. Klock^*, Grace Chang, Ashlyn Hiley, Joseph Hill

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Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Fifty-seven of 100 women with recurrent abortion completed questionnaires designed to assess demographic and reproductive variables, depression, anxiety social desirability, self-esteem, locus of control, and marital adjustment. The results indicated that 32% of the women could be classified as depressed. The subjects also reported higher than average levels of acute and chronic anxiety. Fifty-three percent of the subjects reported below average marital adjustment. Post hoc analyses indicated that the women who had a previous elective abortion had higher levels of anxiety, lower marital adjustment, and different attributions regarding their pregnancy losses than the women who had not had an elective abortion. Having a living child was not a protective buffer against psychological distress.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	503-507
Number of pages	5
Journal	Psychosomatics
Volume	38
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0033-3182(97)71428-2
State	Published - 1997

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Applied Psychology

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