Abstract
Vol 52, No 8, August 2007, the In Review paper entitled “Perinatal Depression: Hiding in Plain Sight” by Shari I Lusskin, Tara M Pundiak, and Sally M Habib. It has come to the authors' attention that the prevalence of postpartum depression among new immigrants to Israel was incorrectly reported as 22.6% rather than 35.8%. The prevalence rate for the entire study group of 288 Israeli women was 22.6%; two-thirds of the entire group reported symptoms during pregnancy. Among new Russian immigrants, the prevalence of postpartum depression was 35.8%, twice the rate (16.9%) of Israeli-born women; rates of antenatal symptoms for this subgroup were not reported. These findings highlight the importance of assessing individual risk factors for perinatal depression. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry regrets the error and any inconvenience it may have caused.