Table 4.

Comparison of mean scores of psychological variables of women in antenatal and postnatal periods

Variables	Women (n=41), mean±SD		P*
	Antenatal	Postnatal
Depression score (EPDS)	7.30 (0.80)	25.80 (5.80)	<0.001
BSI-53
Somatization	3.53 (0.70)	4.25 (0.66)	<0.001
Obsession-compulsion	2.81 (0.43)	4.13 (0.64)	<0.001
Interpersonal; sensitivity	2.50 (0.39)	3.08 (0.48)	<0.001
Depression	3.46 (0.54)	4.24 (0.66)	<0.001
Anxiety	3.16 (0.49)	4.93 (0.77)	<0.001
Hostility	2.05 (0.32)	2.68 (0.41)	0.001
Phobic	2.98 (0.46)	2.42 (0.37)	0.011
Paranoid ideation	2.98 (0.46)	4.64 (0.72)	<0.001
Psychoticism	1.75 (0.27)	3.17 (0.49)	<0.001
Total BSI-53	24.35 (3.80)	30.21 (4.71)	<0.001
GSI	0.75 (0.49)	1.60 (0.57)	<0.001

BSI-53 – Brief symptom inventory 53-items; GSI – Global severity index; EPDS – Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; SD – Standard deviation