[Clinical features of anxiety disorders in pregnant women].

OBJECTIVE

To study the frequency and clinical features of anxiety disorders during pregnancy.

MATERIAL AND

METHODS

One thousand women who were 8-40 weeks pregnant were examined. Anxiety disorders were noted in 98 cases, 90 of them were included in the study. A special form used in the study included medical and social/demographic data. Psychopathological examination and psychometric testing were performed.

RESULTS AND

CONCLUSION

Psychopathological heterogeneity of anxiety disorders was shown. The following syndromes were singled out: anxiety (20%), anxious-sub-depressive (10%), anxious-phobic (13.3%), anxious-depressive (10%) and a subsyndromal variant (37%).