This was in the free copy of a local newspaper, called the Daily News. It's from July 26th, 2010.


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Many men suffer emotionally when their partner has a miscarriage, new research shows. But they recover more quickly from their distress than women do, the study says.

Dr. Grace Kong of Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong and colleagues followed 83 couples for 1 year after a miscarriage. They used 2 tests to gauge levels of distress in both men and women: the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).

Immediately after the miscarriage occured, the researchers found more than 40% of the men were suffering significant psychological distress, as measured by the GHQ-12. By 3 months, just 7% reported this level of distress, and at 1 year, 5% of the men did.

But among the women, 52% had significant distress immediately after miscarriage, 20% did 3 months later, 14% did at 6 months, and 8% reported distress 1 year later.

Findings were similar with the BDI: Immediately after the miscarriage, 26% of the women and 17% of men had high levels of depression; 3 months later, 12% of women and 7% of men were depressed. One year later, 10% of women and 7% of men still had significant symptoms.