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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Depressive Symptoms Among Post-Partum Mothers in Dhanusha District of Nepal

2018; Istanbul Medipol University; Volume: 21; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5350/sleep.hypn.2019.21.0173

1302-1192

Purna Laxmi Maharjan, Shilpa Lamichhane, Purna Devi Shrestha, Jennifer Mathias, Koshish Raj Gautam, Sanjeev Kumar Shah,

Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Post-partum depression is a common complication in women after childbirth.The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with depressive symptoms among post-partum mothers attending Gynecological/ Obstetric ward in Janaki Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Dhanusha, Nepal.This cross-sectional study was conducted among 330 post-partum mothers after delivery to 12 weeks using systematic random sampling.Mothers were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire.The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) was used to screen for depressive symptoms.Chi-square test analysis was used to determine the association of post-partum depressive symptoms with sociodemographic, obstetric and psychosocial factors.The prevalence of post-partum depressive symptoms among mothers was 15.2%.The factors significantly associated with post-natal depression were ethnicity, age at marriage, number of children, sex of the baby, planned or unplanned pregnancy, infant health problems, family history of depression, unhappy with in-laws, absence of husband during pregnancy, smoking habit of husband and drinking habit of the husband.About one-fifth of postpartum mothers have depressive symptoms.Obstetric and psychosocial factors were more associated with occurrence of PPD symptoms.