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Postpartum depression and associated factors among mothers in Bahir Dar Town, Northwest Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Postpartum depressive symptoms are the occurrence of major depressive episode within 4 weeks following delivery. Globally, 10%–20% of mothers suffer from depressive symptoms during their postpartum course. Therefore, assessing postpartum depressive symptoms has a pivotal role in ensuring...

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Autores principales: Abebe, Amsale, Tesfaw, Getachew, Mulat, Haregewoine, Hibdye, Getahun, Yohannes, kalkidan
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31523264
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-019-0244-4
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author Abebe, Amsale
Tesfaw, Getachew
Mulat, Haregewoine
Hibdye, Getahun
Yohannes, kalkidan
author_facet Abebe, Amsale
Tesfaw, Getachew
Mulat, Haregewoine
Hibdye, Getahun
Yohannes, kalkidan
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description BACKGROUND: Postpartum depressive symptoms are the occurrence of major depressive episode within 4 weeks following delivery. Globally, 10%–20% of mothers suffer from depressive symptoms during their postpartum course. Therefore, assessing postpartum depressive symptoms has a pivotal role in ensuring that their mental health needs are met. METHODS: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted including 511 mothers coming for postnatal care service in public health centers in Bahir Dar Town. Data were collected using a pre-tested, structured, and interviewer-administered questionnaire, while the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) was used to assess individuals’ depressive symptoms. The systematic random sampling technique was employed to recruit the study participants. Adjusted odds ratio with a 95% confidence interval (CI) was used to declare the statistical significance of the factors. RESULTS: Postpartum depressive symptoms among mothers were found to be 22.1 (95%, CI 18.6%, 25.8%). In multivariate logistic regression, stressful life events (AOR = 4.46, 95% CI 2.64, 7.54), domestic decision making (AOR = 4.26, 95% CI 2.54, 7.14), unplanned pregnancy (AOR = 1.86, 95% CI 1.02, 3.41), partner violence (AOR = 3.16, 95% CI 1.76, 5.67), and hospitalization of their babies (AOR = 2.24, 95% CI 1.17, 4.310) were factors significantly associated with postpartum depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: Postpartum depressive symptoms among mothers were common in the study area. Stressful life events, lack of empowerment in domestic decision making, intimate partner violence, unplanned pregnancy, and hospitalization of their baby were factors significantly associated with postpartum depression. The Ministry of Health needs to give training on how to screen postpartum depressive symptoms among mothers, and interventions that would address the above factors would benefit in tackling further complications.
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spelling pubmed-67345922019-09-14 Postpartum depression and associated factors among mothers in Bahir Dar Town, Northwest Ethiopia Abebe, Amsale Tesfaw, Getachew Mulat, Haregewoine Hibdye, Getahun Yohannes, kalkidan Ann Gen Psychiatry Primary Research BACKGROUND: Postpartum depressive symptoms are the occurrence of major depressive episode within 4 weeks following delivery. Globally, 10%–20% of mothers suffer from depressive symptoms during their postpartum course. Therefore, assessing postpartum depressive symptoms has a pivotal role in ensuring that their mental health needs are met. METHODS: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted including 511 mothers coming for postnatal care service in public health centers in Bahir Dar Town. Data were collected using a pre-tested, structured, and interviewer-administered questionnaire, while the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) was used to assess individuals’ depressive symptoms. The systematic random sampling technique was employed to recruit the study participants. Adjusted odds ratio with a 95% confidence interval (CI) was used to declare the statistical significance of the factors. RESULTS: Postpartum depressive symptoms among mothers were found to be 22.1 (95%, CI 18.6%, 25.8%). In multivariate logistic regression, stressful life events (AOR = 4.46, 95% CI 2.64, 7.54), domestic decision making (AOR = 4.26, 95% CI 2.54, 7.14), unplanned pregnancy (AOR = 1.86, 95% CI 1.02, 3.41), partner violence (AOR = 3.16, 95% CI 1.76, 5.67), and hospitalization of their babies (AOR = 2.24, 95% CI 1.17, 4.310) were factors significantly associated with postpartum depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: Postpartum depressive symptoms among mothers were common in the study area. Stressful life events, lack of empowerment in domestic decision making, intimate partner violence, unplanned pregnancy, and hospitalization of their baby were factors significantly associated with postpartum depression. The Ministry of Health needs to give training on how to screen postpartum depressive symptoms among mothers, and interventions that would address the above factors would benefit in tackling further complications. BioMed Central 2019-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6734592/ /pubmed/31523264 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-019-0244-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Tesfaw, Getachew
Mulat, Haregewoine
Hibdye, Getahun
Yohannes, kalkidan
Postpartum depression and associated factors among mothers in Bahir Dar Town, Northwest Ethiopia
title Postpartum depression and associated factors among mothers in Bahir Dar Town, Northwest Ethiopia
title_full Postpartum depression and associated factors among mothers in Bahir Dar Town, Northwest Ethiopia
title_fullStr Postpartum depression and associated factors among mothers in Bahir Dar Town, Northwest Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Postpartum depression and associated factors among mothers in Bahir Dar Town, Northwest Ethiopia
title_short Postpartum depression and associated factors among mothers in Bahir Dar Town, Northwest Ethiopia
title_sort postpartum depression and associated factors among mothers in bahir dar town, northwest ethiopia
topic Primary Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31523264
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-019-0244-4
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