Although ancient Greek physicians described several mental disorders, their medical texts bring little information about postpartum depression as defined by modern medicine. Only one reference in ancient Greek medical literature - a passage from Soranus' Gynaeciorum libri IV - can be considered a clear presentation of this mental disorder. Soranus' interpretation seems to be firmly based on the...

Women with postnatal depression are often reluctant to take medication postnatally and access to psychological therapies is limited. Exercise offers a freely available treatment option but depressed mothers' experience of exercise has not been investigated. We conducted a qualitative study nested within a randomised trial of an exercise intervention for women with postnatal depression. Women de...

objectivet: to determine the prevalence and risk factors of postpartum depression among women living in zabol, a city in south-east of iran. method: 2 to 8 weeks after delivery, 408 women were assessed for depression and some of its risk factors. results: the prevalence of postpartum depression was (40.4 %). risk factors for the onset of post-partum depression included younger age, low income f...

this study is aimed to compare two treatment modalities in term of decreasing depression symptoms in divorced women in city of tehran. it is an experimental study .the beck depression test was done in divorced women with depression symptoms, then they were randomly assigned to 2 groups, one group received only pharmacologic agents and the other group received both medication and cognitive thera...

background: the objective of this study was an investigation of the association between depression and sleep quality. materials and methods: th is cross-sectional study was performed on 360 delivered women that referred to thirty health-care centers in ardabil, iran. the standard pittsburgh sleep quality index questionnaire was used to the investigation of sleep quality. we used the edinburgh p...

BACKGROUND Postnatal depression can have a major impact on the lives of women affected and on those around them. While effective treatments are available, it would be preferable to prevent the condition. The aim of this review was to examine the effectiveness of antenatal interventions designed to prevent postnatal depression in high-risk women. METHODS Randomised controlled trials of interve...

Previous studies estimate that about 10 to 15 percent of mothers suffer from postpartum depression, yet for many of these mothers their depression remains unrecognized and untreated.1-3 The few studies that have examined helpseeking among mothers with postpartum depression show that the majority of these mothers do not seek help from any source and only about 20 percent consult a health profess...

We describe the association between postpartum depression and the quantity and content of infant media use. Households with depressed mothers viewed twice as much television as households with non-depressed mothers did, and depressed mothers appeared to derive comparatively greater pleasure from television viewing. Maternal depression was associated with an increased exposure to child-directed ...