ICD-11 classes
06 Mental, behavioural or neurodevelopmental disorders
Mental or behavioural disorders associated with pregnancy,...
6E20 — Mental or behavioural disorders associated with pregnancy,...
ICD-11 6E20 — Mental or behavioural disorders associated with pregnancy, childbirth or the puerperium, without psychotic symptoms
A syndrome associated with pregnancy or the puerperium (commencing within about 6 weeks after delivery) that involves significant mental and behavioural features, most commonly depressive symptoms. The syndrome does not include delusions, hallucinations, or other psychotic symptoms. If the symptoms meet the diagnostic requirements for a specific mental disorder, that diagnosis should also be assigned. This designation should not be used to describe mild and transient depressive symptoms that do not meet the diagnostic requirements for a depressive episode, which may occur soon after delivery (so-called postpartum blues).
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: