AIMS Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a potentially life-threatening cause of heart failure, commoner in Afro-Caribbean than Caucasian women. Its diagnosis can be challenging due to physiological changes in cardiac function that also occur in healthy women during the early postpartum period. This study aimed to (i) establish the overlap between normal cardiac physiology in the immediate postpartum ...

INTRODUCTION Postpartum depression (PPD) is a disorder that affects not only mothers, but also can lead to family, social, economic and vocational breakdown. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with postpartum depression among mothers in an urban hospital setting in Malaysia. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, mothers attending routine visits...

Efforts to prevent postpartum weight retention in extant clinical trials of African American women have proven exceedingly challenging. The primary purpose of this pilot study was to determine whether a behavioral intervention implemented in early pregnancy through 6 months postpartum could increase the proportion of African American women who were at or below their early pregnancy weights by 6...

OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence and correlates of the postpartum depression and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. METHODS One hundred sixty six women were assessed around 10th to 14th days after delivery in Gangneung Asan Hospital, Korea, from September 2011 to March 2012. We checked their risk factors for postpartum depressive disorders using the Beck Depression Inventory and the Edinbur...

ôbjective: postpartum depression (ppd) is a common health problem which affects women in the postpartum period. this is a brief note on its associated factors in women from different cultures. methods: â literature review was performed in mëdlïnë and pubmed from 1991 to 2008 and magiran from 1991 to 2009. âdditional articles and book chapters were referenced from these sources. results: the pre...

Background and Aim: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is one of the anxiety disorders which occur in postpartum period. The prevalence of PTSD – induced by preeclampsia has been already reported as 28%, however no study was found to compare PTSD in primiparous and multiparous women. This study was therefore conducted to compare PTSD in primiparous and multiparous women. Methods: This comparative d...

The causes and consequences of postpartum depression were explored in this paper. Researchers have found that childbirth is joyful for some women but emotionally disturbing and stressful for others. Genetic, environmental, and biological variables have been implicated as factors that influence the experience of postpartum depression among women. However, due to a lack of consensus about the rel...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the postpartum morbidity and postpartum management of febrile morbidity associated with advanced HIV infection. METHODS A case control study of HIV infected women at a tertiary care center during January 2000-June 2005 was performed. Postpartum morbidity was defined as endometritis, blood transfusion, wound complication, readmission, infectious morbidity, or unexpecte...

PURPOSE To compare differences in psychosocial changes among experienced and first-time mothers over 6 postpartum weeks. DESIGN A trend research study design. METHOD A cohort of 439 first-time mothers and 420 experienced mothers during the 6 postpartum weeks was recruited in southern Taiwan. Each participant was interviewed over the phone to complete the Hung Postpartum Stress Scale, the So...