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A survey of postpartum depression and health care needs among Chinese postpartum women during the pandemic of COVID-19

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic seriously endangers the public's mental health, especially to pregnant and postpartum women. But little is known about postpartum depression and health care needs among Chinese postpartum women. AIM: To investigate the status and risk factors of postpartum depr...

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Autores principales: An, Ran, Chen, Xiaoli, Wu, Yuanyuan, Liu, Juan, Deng, Che, Liu, Yanqun, Guo, Hongxia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7886635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33781396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2021.02.001
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author An, Ran
Chen, Xiaoli
Wu, Yuanyuan
Liu, Juan
Deng, Che
Liu, Yanqun
Guo, Hongxia
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Chen, Xiaoli
Wu, Yuanyuan
Liu, Juan
Deng, Che
Liu, Yanqun
Guo, Hongxia
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic seriously endangers the public's mental health, especially to pregnant and postpartum women. But little is known about postpartum depression and health care needs among Chinese postpartum women. AIM: To investigate the status and risk factors of postpartum depression and health care needs among Chinese postpartum women during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 209 Chinese postpartum women were recruited from May to July 2020 by convenience sampling and assessed online with self-designed Maternal General Information Questionnaire, Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale (EPDS) and Chinese Version of the Perceived Stress Scale (CPSS). Descriptive statistics, chi-square test, independent samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression were used for data analysis. RESULTS: With the EPDS cut-off value of 10, the incidence of postpartum depressive symptoms was 56.9%. Age, history of abortion and perceived stress were the influencing factors of postpartum depression (adjusted R(2) = 0.432, F = 23.611, p < .001). The top three health care needs were infant rearing guidance (78.0%), maternal and infant protection guidance (60.3%) and dietary guidance (45.0%). The proportion of psychological rehabilitation guidance needs in the depressed group was significantly higher than that in the non-depressed group (34.5% vs. 20.0%, p < .05). CONCLUSIONS: Maternal postpartum depression in China was at a high level during the COVID-19 pandemic. Women aged 25–34, with a history of abortion and high stress levels were at higher risk for postpartum depression. Timely psychological counselling, intervention and COVID-19-related health education are in great need for postpartum women.
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spelling pubmed-78866352021-02-17 A survey of postpartum depression and health care needs among Chinese postpartum women during the pandemic of COVID-19 An, Ran Chen, Xiaoli Wu, Yuanyuan Liu, Juan Deng, Che Liu, Yanqun Guo, Hongxia Arch Psychiatr Nurs Article BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic seriously endangers the public's mental health, especially to pregnant and postpartum women. But little is known about postpartum depression and health care needs among Chinese postpartum women. AIM: To investigate the status and risk factors of postpartum depression and health care needs among Chinese postpartum women during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 209 Chinese postpartum women were recruited from May to July 2020 by convenience sampling and assessed online with self-designed Maternal General Information Questionnaire, Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale (EPDS) and Chinese Version of the Perceived Stress Scale (CPSS). Descriptive statistics, chi-square test, independent samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression were used for data analysis. RESULTS: With the EPDS cut-off value of 10, the incidence of postpartum depressive symptoms was 56.9%. Age, history of abortion and perceived stress were the influencing factors of postpartum depression (adjusted R(2) = 0.432, F = 23.611, p < .001). The top three health care needs were infant rearing guidance (78.0%), maternal and infant protection guidance (60.3%) and dietary guidance (45.0%). The proportion of psychological rehabilitation guidance needs in the depressed group was significantly higher than that in the non-depressed group (34.5% vs. 20.0%, p < .05). CONCLUSIONS: Maternal postpartum depression in China was at a high level during the COVID-19 pandemic. Women aged 25–34, with a history of abortion and high stress levels were at higher risk for postpartum depression. Timely psychological counselling, intervention and COVID-19-related health education are in great need for postpartum women. Elsevier Inc. 2021-04 2021-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7886635/ /pubmed/33781396 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2021.02.001 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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An, Ran
Chen, Xiaoli
Wu, Yuanyuan
Liu, Juan
Deng, Che
Liu, Yanqun
Guo, Hongxia
A survey of postpartum depression and health care needs among Chinese postpartum women during the pandemic of COVID-19
title A survey of postpartum depression and health care needs among Chinese postpartum women during the pandemic of COVID-19
title_full A survey of postpartum depression and health care needs among Chinese postpartum women during the pandemic of COVID-19
title_fullStr A survey of postpartum depression and health care needs among Chinese postpartum women during the pandemic of COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed A survey of postpartum depression and health care needs among Chinese postpartum women during the pandemic of COVID-19
title_short A survey of postpartum depression and health care needs among Chinese postpartum women during the pandemic of COVID-19
title_sort survey of postpartum depression and health care needs among chinese postpartum women during the pandemic of covid-19
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7886635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33781396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2021.02.001
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