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Prevalence and factors associated with post-partum depression in a rural area of Cameroon: a cross-sectional study
INTRODUCTION: post-partum depression is one of the many challenges associated with childbirth. In Cameroon, the focus is more on post-partum obstetric complications resulting in underdiagnosis and misdiagnosis of this condition. The current socio-political crisis plaguing the English-speaking part o...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9429990/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36060844 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.42.138.32347 |
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author | Dingana, Therence Nwana Ngasa, Stewart Ndutard Ngasa, Neh Chang Tchouda, Leticia Armelle Sani Abanda, Christabel Sanji, Eric Wah Bill, Mbianyor Niba, Juste Ongeh Babila, Carlson-Sama |
author_facet | Dingana, Therence Nwana Ngasa, Stewart Ndutard Ngasa, Neh Chang Tchouda, Leticia Armelle Sani Abanda, Christabel Sanji, Eric Wah Bill, Mbianyor Niba, Juste Ongeh Babila, Carlson-Sama |
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description | INTRODUCTION: post-partum depression is one of the many challenges associated with childbirth. In Cameroon, the focus is more on post-partum obstetric complications resulting in underdiagnosis and misdiagnosis of this condition. The current socio-political crisis plaguing the English-speaking part of Cameroon has increased the stressors that may inherently increase the prevalence. There is no published data describing post-partum depression in a rural setting in Cameroon. We seek to determine the prevalence and factors associated with PPD in women attending the Tubah District hospital, North West Region, Cameroon. METHODS: we conducted a cross-sectional hospital-based study at the Tubah District Hospital. A consecutive convenience sampling technique was used to recruit participants. Our main outcome was post-partum depression which was assessed using the Edinburgh Post-partum Depression Scale. RESULTS: a total of 207 post-partum women took part in this study with a mean age of 27.54 ± 5.78 years. The prevalence of depression was 31.8%. Gender-based violence (OR: 4.67, P = 0.013), financial stress (OR: 3.57, P = 0.002) and male baby (OR: 2.83, P < 0.001) were independent psychosocial factors associated with PPD. Independent psycho-clinical factors of post-partum depression include family history of mental health illness (OR: 4.34, P = 0.04) and previous history of depression (OR: 4.17, P = 0.02). CONCLUSION: the prevalence of post-partum depression in women attending the Tubah District Hospital, Northwest Region, Cameroon is high. The factors associated with PPD are many. Identification of risk factors, early diagnosis and proper management can prevent PPD, disabling morbidity, and suicide in mothers. |
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spelling | pubmed-94299902022-09-01 Prevalence and factors associated with post-partum depression in a rural area of Cameroon: a cross-sectional study Dingana, Therence Nwana Ngasa, Stewart Ndutard Ngasa, Neh Chang Tchouda, Leticia Armelle Sani Abanda, Christabel Sanji, Eric Wah Bill, Mbianyor Niba, Juste Ongeh Babila, Carlson-Sama Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: post-partum depression is one of the many challenges associated with childbirth. In Cameroon, the focus is more on post-partum obstetric complications resulting in underdiagnosis and misdiagnosis of this condition. The current socio-political crisis plaguing the English-speaking part of Cameroon has increased the stressors that may inherently increase the prevalence. There is no published data describing post-partum depression in a rural setting in Cameroon. We seek to determine the prevalence and factors associated with PPD in women attending the Tubah District hospital, North West Region, Cameroon. METHODS: we conducted a cross-sectional hospital-based study at the Tubah District Hospital. A consecutive convenience sampling technique was used to recruit participants. Our main outcome was post-partum depression which was assessed using the Edinburgh Post-partum Depression Scale. RESULTS: a total of 207 post-partum women took part in this study with a mean age of 27.54 ± 5.78 years. The prevalence of depression was 31.8%. Gender-based violence (OR: 4.67, P = 0.013), financial stress (OR: 3.57, P = 0.002) and male baby (OR: 2.83, P < 0.001) were independent psychosocial factors associated with PPD. Independent psycho-clinical factors of post-partum depression include family history of mental health illness (OR: 4.34, P = 0.04) and previous history of depression (OR: 4.17, P = 0.02). CONCLUSION: the prevalence of post-partum depression in women attending the Tubah District Hospital, Northwest Region, Cameroon is high. The factors associated with PPD are many. Identification of risk factors, early diagnosis and proper management can prevent PPD, disabling morbidity, and suicide in mothers. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9429990/ /pubmed/36060844 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.42.138.32347 Text en Copyright: Therence Nwana Dingana et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Dingana, Therence Nwana Ngasa, Stewart Ndutard Ngasa, Neh Chang Tchouda, Leticia Armelle Sani Abanda, Christabel Sanji, Eric Wah Bill, Mbianyor Niba, Juste Ongeh Babila, Carlson-Sama Prevalence and factors associated with post-partum depression in a rural area of Cameroon: a cross-sectional study |
title | Prevalence and factors associated with post-partum depression in a rural area of Cameroon: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Prevalence and factors associated with post-partum depression in a rural area of Cameroon: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Prevalence and factors associated with post-partum depression in a rural area of Cameroon: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence and factors associated with post-partum depression in a rural area of Cameroon: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Prevalence and factors associated with post-partum depression in a rural area of Cameroon: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | prevalence and factors associated with post-partum depression in a rural area of cameroon: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9429990/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36060844 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.42.138.32347 |
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