Postpartum depression affects a huge number of women and has detrimental consequences. Knowing the factors associated with postpartum depression during pregnancy can help its prevention. Although there is evidence surrounding behavioral or psychological predictors of postpartum depression, there is a lack of evidence of biological forecasters. The aim of this study was to analyze the sociodemog...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to investigate prevalence of urinary incontinence at 6 months postpartum and to study how continence status during pregnancy and mode of delivery influence urinary incontinence at 6 months postpartum in primiparous women. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Pregnant women attending routine ultrasound examination were recruited to the Norwegian Mother and...

AIMS To determine whether current and postpartum maternal depression and low maternal intelligence are risk factors for malnutrition in children. METHODS In rural South India 72 children with malnutrition were identified from a central register; 72 controls were matched for age, gender, and residence. RESULTS Major depression in the postpartum period (OR 5.0, 95% CI 1.0 to 24.0), current ma...

Postpartum depression is a common phenomenon and has the complexities which bringing on adverse consequence for mother, baby, family. The reference of this research provides an overview various risk factors postpartum depression. This aimed to identify such as level depression, type, husband’s support, baby weight, parity number children. Those can be cause postpartum. Women with who have in lo...

Affective disorders occur commonly in postpartum period, ranging in severity from mild and transient ‘‘baby blues’’ experienced by 50–80 % of women to postpartum psychosis which affects \1 % of women [1]. Postpartum major depression lies along this spectrum of postnatal mood disorder. The debilitating effects of postpartum depression (PPD) can involve an entire family [2], and women afflicted w...

The estimated prevalence of postpartum depression differs in developed and developing countries. Due to the increasing number cases countries like Indonesia, has become a serious issue. This study aimed identify factors influencing Bandar Lampung, 2023 using Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale instrument. employed cross-sectional design with sample size 251 respondents, selected based on inclu...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether women who frequently bring their neonates for problem-oriented primary care visits or emergency department visits are at elevated risk of having depressive symptoms. DESIGN Analysis of 2 prospective cohort studies of mothers and their infants: (1) a telephone interview study of mothers and infants after birth at an urban teaching hospital (the hospital cohort) a...