Effects of post partum depression on maternity experience

Amaç

Studies have reported consistly that 10-20 % of women who have given birth experience postpartum depression in Turkey. Postpartum depression can start any time during the 1st year after delivery, not only in the first few months after giving birth. it is characterized with anxiety, fatigue, feeling of loneliness and joy and even refusing her child. Our resource was conducted as a deseriptive study to define postpartum depression and hopelessness postpartum women, to define women experiences who has highly postpartum depression score in the four month

Yöntem

The study was performed between 1 February 2002-31 May 2002. Sample consist of 173 women that given birth to a child in Zeynep Kamil Women's and Children Hospital, in İstanbul. That were asked to fiil 21 item Beck Depression Scale that translate and made validity and reliability study by Tegin (1980), and 10 item Beck Hopelessness Scale of that made validity and reliability study by Seber (1991), Durak (1994) and a questionnaire that was developed by researchers in the postpartum first three days. Than the both scale was scored and it was seen that mild (n.20), moderate (n:5) and severe depression (n.:2). Total 27 women who experiences postpartum depression are being evaluated from researchers by telephone. Researchers are inquiring presently about relationship mother who postpartum depression with her baby, family, husband and environmental in this interview.

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in our study we found women age X:25.08±5.02 years, number of pregnancy X:2.48±2.05, time of married X:62.03+55.70 month. Average Beck Depression Inventory Scores were 10.80±8.88, Beck Hopelessness Scale Scores were X:4.40±3-38 on first three days in postpartum. The mean Beck depression Inventory Scores for the first three days postpartum were weakly correlated with the Beck Hopelessness ınventory Scores at there days (r:0.32). Other variables studied (age, occupation, number of child) did not correlation the Beck Depression Scores and Beck Hopelessness Inventory Scores.

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