Grossesses survenant après une mort périnatale: élaboration d'un indice de risque psychologique

: The authors have interviewed 21 women who were attending the gynaecological and obstetrical service of the hospital for pregnancies occurring after a perinatal death. They show that anxiety is characteristic of these situations, but that the intensity of anxiety varies from woman to woman. They describe, after analysing the interviews, the different variations that can be found as these pregnancies progress according to the type of anxiety. By using a statistical analysis they can separate out the most important criteria and they can work out a method of illustrating a threshold which can easily be used by obstetricians in everyday practice. They suggest a method of handling the patients according to the level of anxiety found.