Among the 316 female marriage immigrants, 126 women (39.9%) scored above the cutoff point of 16 for depression on CES-D (M ¼ 23.03; SD ¼ 6.26) (Table 1). Table 2 shows differences in health status between the depressed and nondepressed groups. There were significant differences in stillbirth experience (p ¼ .008),induced abortion (c2 ¼ 5.54, p ¼ .019), morbidity (c2 ¼ 7.68,p ¼ .006), and perceived health status (c2 ¼ 10.26, p ¼ .006) between depressed and nondepressed immigrant women in the present study. The women had experienced a stillbirth and aninduced abortion represented 7.9% and 20.4% of the depressed group, whereas they represented 0.8% and 9.5% of the nondepressed group, respectively. The women with a disease since immigration represented 74.6% of the depressed group, versus59.5% of the nondepressed group. There were no statistically significant differences between the depressed and nondepressed participants for BMI and experiences of pregnancy and sponta neous abortion.