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April 24-25, 2017 Las Vegas, USA
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th
World Congress on
Psychiatry and Psychological Syndromes
Volume 20, Issue 2 (Suppl)
J Psychiatry 2017
ISSN: 2378-5756 Psychiatry, an open access journal
Psychiatry 2017
April 24-25, 2017
J Psychiatry 2017, 20:2 (Suppl)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2378-5756-C1-018Aspects of psychosocial stress during pregnancy
Rajiv Mahendru
BPS Government Medical College for Women, India
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mbalance that a pregnant woman feels when she cannot cope with the demands is expressed both behaviorally and physiologically.
Associations have been noted between antenatal psychosocial stress and domestic violence, substance abuse, depression symptoms,
psychotic diagnosis, poor weight gain and having a chronic medical disorder. These factors may affect via indirect behavioral factors
like nutrition, sleep, exercise, substance use, tobacco use and/or use of prenatal services and direct physiological pathways, while
physiological response to psychosocial stress may include both neuroendocrine and immune responses. Levels of stress likely to
change throughout the course of pregnancy and may result in higher rates of Low Birth Weight and preterm deliveries.
dr.rmahendru@gmail.com