Table 1 Incidence of pseudocyesis

1/22000 births

Boston Hospitals, USA

?

[4]

1/344 of newly booked expectant mothers

St. Vincent’s Hospital Ndubia, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

African black

[3]

1/250 maternity clinic admissions (24 out of 27 patients had tried to conceive without success for 2 to 17 years)

Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, USA

85% (23/27) African-American black; 15% (4/27) white

[5]

1/200 births

Baragwanath Hospital, South Africa

African black

[6]

1/160 women who had previously being investigated and managed for reproductive failure

Wad Medani Teaching Hospital, Sudan

African black

[7]