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Journal of Paediatric Care Insight Risk Factors for Neonatal Depression in a Regional Public Hospital, Santos, Brazil, 2013 Marcele Brito de Souza1, Sarah Warkentin2, Laís Amaral Mais3 and Tulio Konstantyner4* MD. Graduate Student in Pediatrics. Hospital Guilherme Álvaro (HGA), Santos, SP, Brazil
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MSc. PhD Student of Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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MSc. PhD Student of Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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MD, MSc, PhD. Professor of Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) & Universidade Santo Amaro (UNISA), Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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*Corresponding author: Tulio Konstantyner, Discipline of Nutrology, Department of Pediatrics, Federal University of São Paulo. Rua Loefgreen, 1647, CEP: 04040-032, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Tel/Fax: 55 (11) 5084-4538; E mail:
[email protected] Article Type: Research, Submission Date: 23 March 2017, Accepted Date: 8 June 2017, Published Date: 13 July 2017. Citation: Marcele Brito de Souza, Sarah Warkentin, Laís Amaral Mais and Tulio Konstantyner (2017) Risk Factors for Neonatal Depression in a Regional Public Hospital, Santos, Brazil, 2013. J.Paedi.Care.Inol 1(2): 7-11. doi: https://doi.org/10.24218/jpci.2017.08. Copyright: © 2017 Marcele Brito de Souza, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract Neonatal depression leads to severe neurological sequelae with important impacts on quality of life. Most risk factors are sensitive to primary care actions, and this should be considered when developing prevention strategies. The aim was to identify the incidence and risk factors associated with neonatal depression in newborns at a Brazilian regional public hospital. A cross-sectional study of 784 live births with gestational ages of 22 weeks or more and without any major congenital anomalies was performed. Neonatal depression was defined as an Apgar score lower than seven at five minutes. Chi-square tests (p