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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth BioMed Central Research article Open Access Prevalence of pre- and postpartum depression in Jamaican women 1 1 2 Janice Wissart , Omkar Parshad* and Santosh Kulkarni Address: 1Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica (WI) and 2Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Child Health, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica (WI) Email: Janice Wissart - jwissart@yahoo.co.uk; Omkar Parshad* - omkar.parshad@.jm; Santosh Kulkarni - santosh@ * Corresponding author Published: 08 November 2005 Received: 13 July 2005 Accepted: 08 November 2005 BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2005, 5:15 doi:10.1186/1471-2393-5-15 This article is available from: /1471-2393/5/15 © 2005 Wissart et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Maternal depression during pregnancy has been studied less than depression in postpartum period. The aims of this study were to find out the prevalence of prepartum and postpartum depression and the risk factors associated in a cohort of Afro-Jamaican pregnant women in Jamaica.