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employment, socioeconomic state, psychological-emotional state,
and family.
Objectives The purpose of this study was to identify influence of
childbirth experience and postpartum depression on QOL.
Methods This is a descriptive cross-sectional study regarding 150
postpartum women receiving cares in the hospital of Sfax and
examined during the first and the sixth week post-delivery. Data
collection tools in this study were demographic questionnaire,
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), and world health
organization quality of life-bref (WHOQOL-bref). Data were ana-
lyzed using SPSS.
Results The mean age of our sample (n = 150) was 29.61 years.
During the sixth week study period, 126 of 150 were examined.
A personal psychiatric history of depression was found in 9.3% of
cases.
The current pregnancy was undesired in 15.3% of cases.
The prevalence of postpartum depression in the first week was
14.7% and 19.8% in the sixth week after delivery.
The mean score of quality of life was 81.62 ±9.09.
Scores of quality of life and all its dimensions were significantly
lower in depressive women.
Conclusion Because enormous changes develop in postpartum
women, we suggest supportive measures for mother by her
mother-in-law family, and caregivers to improve the QOL and
health status of themother and her child and to prevent postpartum
depression.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
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The psychological effects of
unmarried women “a field study on a
sample of unmarried women in
Algeria”
L. Fekih ∗ ounis
1 Université Abou-Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen, Psychology, Tlemcen, Algeria
2 Université Abou-Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen, Philosophy, Tlemcen, Algeria
∗ Corresponding author.
Background The present research was designed to determine the
psychological stress as experienced by unmarried women in the
education sector, and how to help them to discover the meaning of
their presence in the framework, innovation and achievement, art,
science, comprehension, love and adaptation in life.
Aim This research aims to identify the various problems and
mental disorders that unmarried women suffering from, and to
determine the differences between unmarried women in terms of
the psychological problems resulting from “unmarried” in: ages,
kind and professional status.
Method The method used in this research is purely descriptive
following the collected data from the sample of 200 unmarried
women. The tools that were used in this research as follow: Self-
Confidence Scale, Psychological Stress Scale, “List of Information
Collection for unmarried women”; we proceeded with some statis-
tical techniques.
Results The findings of this research were:
– emotional problems are themost common problems experienced
by unmarried women;
– the present study indicates the presence of depressive symptoms
in 17%, which can evolve toward psychotic depression as dysthymia
(loss of interest in daily activities, hopelessness, low self-esteem,
self-criticism, trouble concentrating and trouble making decisions,
effectiveness and productivity, avoidance of social activities, feel-
ings of guilt and worries over the past, insomnia. . .);
– the impact of unmarried on late stages have more negative
impact, and psychological effect on them was more severe and the
greatest harm.
Conclusion The advancement of women in the age without mar-
riage or “unmarried women” is origin of psychological stress and
low self-confidence.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
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Gender differences on mental health
distress: Findings from the economic
recession in Portugal
D. Frasquilho∗ ardoso , A. Ana , M. Silva ,
J.M. Caldas-de-Almeida
CEDOC, Chonic Diseases Research Center, Nova Medical School,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbo, Portugal
∗ Corresponding author.
Introduction Evidence frompast economic recessions shows that
increased risk of mental distress is likely to occur. Until now, little is
known whether distress levels differ by gender in countries highly
hit by the economic recession.
Objectives The aim of the study was to characterize and analyze
the differences in mental health distress in men and women during
the current economic recession in Portugal.
Methods A subsample of 911 participants from the 2008 national
mental health survey, were re-interviewed in 2014/2015. Sociode-
mographic data was collected and mental health distress was
evaluated using the 10-item Kessler’s Psychological Distress Scale
(K10). Chi-square statistics were used to investigate differences
between men and women in mental distress as a categorical vari-
able.
Results Mean mental distress differed significantly according to
gender, Chi2 (1) = 13.716, P = 0.001. The results showed that a much
higher proportion of women (18.5%) revealed to be under psycho-
logical distress compared to men (9.9%).
Conclusions Distress levels during the economic crisis in Por-
tugal differ significantly by gender. More women reported to
be distressed compared to men. There are several hypotheses
for a differential expression of psychological distress between
women and men during the recession, such as different gen-
der roles which asserts that differences are due to gender
and country based coping resources but also due to several
determinants of mental health such as income, employment
and social status. Further research is needed to better predict
a variety of characteristics that are important for this out-
come.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
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Complementary and integrative
medicine approach for climacteric
disorders
D. Gamus
Sheba Medical Center, Complementary and Integrative Medicine
Service, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Introduction Menopausal symptom clusters of vasomotor symp-
toms (VMS), sleep and mood symptoms may last for years and
might lead to an increased risk of depression.
While hormone replacement therapy is still themost effective ther-
apy for reducing VMS, which are the most prominent symptoms of
menopause, the majority of women prefer to choose nonhormonal
therapies, either because of medical contraindications or personal
beliefs and turn to complementary and integrative medicine (CIM).