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To better detect and support women who suffer from postpartum depression, the government has announced that during the fifth week after childbirth, a systematic interview will be introduced from 2022.
100,000 women suffer from postpartum depression every year
It was during the opening speech of the second day of the Mental Health Conference that Adrien Taquet, Secretary of State for Child Protection, announced that new measures would be taken to better support pregnant women.
“Each year, approximately 100,000 women suffer from postpartum depressionor about 15% of them” announced the Secretary of State. A figure probably underestimated according to Adrien Taquet since a recent survey published on September 23 by OpinionWay for Qare indicates that nearly 30% of women and 18% of men claim to have suffered depressive episodes after the birth of their child.
Follow your pregnancy week by week
A systematic interview at the 5th and 12th week after delivery
“We therefore need a major mobilization in the face of this public health problem.” declared the Secretary of State in the face of what he calls a “taboo” of our society and that it should be made a “political fight” he continued.
In this context, from 2022, a systematic interview will be introduced from the fifth week after childbirth. Women at risk will be offered a second interview around the twelfth week.
This reflection was carried out as part of the “1000 first days”, launched in 2019 to support families in the sometimes delicate, but crucial journey of young parents and their children.