كليدواژه :
Postpartum , افسردگي , عوامل اجتماعي , پس از زايمان , Psychological factors , depression , Social factors , عوامل رواني
چكيده لاتين :
A descriptive-analytic study performed on social-psychological factors affecting post-partum depression was done. In this study, the degrees of depression of 254 woman were measured through their responses to the Beck test and social-psychological factors were surveyed through a questionairre. Ages of subjects ranged from 15 to 38, having one to nine pregnancies and natural (Vaginal), cesarean, and apparatus deliveries. The subject resided in Karaj Iran. They had not immigrated during the past ten years, and there had been no cases of mental disorder among their immediate or second level relatives. Distribution tables (frequency, percentage) were used in the analysis of the date obtained and X-squared test was employed to determine whether a correlation exists between the variables. The result of the study show that there was no significant correlation (p=0.95) between the structural features of the subject, i.e. age, number of pregnancies, number of deliveries, number of children, occupation, studies and kind of delivery, and their degree of post-partum depression (except for the kind of delivery). The results showed no significant correlation between psychological factors, job satisfaction, the subjectʹs relation with her mother in the childhood, and post-partum depression. However, there were significant correlations (p=0.95) between care post-partum morbidities, relation with the husband, relation with father in the childhood, and disappointing events in the past year, and post-partum depression. As to relationships between social factors and past-partum depression, it was found that no significant correlation (p=0.95) between satisfaction with relations with colleagues and degree of depression; between adequancy of income, relations with the husbandʹs family, kind of relation with the subjectʹs own family, and level of social relations, and degree of post-patrum depressions. Future research and means to decrease the incidence of this mental disorder.
