The aims of the study were to investigate the prevalence of anxiety and
depression and to correlate symptoms of anxiety and depression with abnormal
uterine bleeding (AUB) in Korean women. Our study included 124 Korean
premenopausal women aged 15–55 without treatment of psychiatric disorders, who
visited one university hospital due to AUB between September 2015 and December
2019. The Korean Beck Anxiety Inventory (K-BAI) and the Korean Beck Depression-II (K-BDI-II) were used to assess Anxiety and depression symptoms.
We also analyzed obstetrical and clinical data to assess the association between
anxiety and depression with AUB.
The cut-off scores for possible anxiety disorder were met by 37.9% (47 women)
of the patients and for possible depression disorder by 19.5% (24 women). The
most common menstrual associated symptoms were heavy menstrual bleeding (80.6%),
dysmenorrhea (55.6%), and irregular menstrual cycles (33.9%). More women with
AUB in our study had anxiety as measured by the K-BAI and depression as measured
by the K-BDI-II than general Korean population.
A history of abortion and cesarean section (C/sec) were related with anxiety,
whereas a history of minor surgery was related to depression. Anxiety and
depression (r = 0.629, P
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Clinical factors associated with anxiety and depression in Korean women with abnormal uterine bleeding
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Bucheon St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 14647 Seoul, Republic of Korea
*Correspondence: poouh74@catholic.ac.kr (Min Jeong Kim)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2021, 48(2), 323–330;
https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ceog.2021.02.2329
Submitted: 18 October 2020 | Revised: 4 January 2021 | Accepted: 25 January 2021 | Published: 15 April 2021
Copyright: © 2021 The Authors. Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Keywords
Abnormal uterine bleeding
Heavy menstrual bleeding
Anxiety
Depression
Funding
Institute of Clinical Medicine Research of Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, Research Fund, 2020
HC14C1062/Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korean Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI)
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