Relationship between kind of delivery and postpartum depression

Abstract

Background and aims:

Postpartum depression (PPD) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders following delivery. This disorder makes serious problem for mother, child and family; therefore the identification of its risk factors is a must. One of these factors is kind of delivery. This study has been carried out to evaluate relationship between kind of delivery and PPD in kashan IRAN 2006.

Methods:

This case control-study evaluated 460 women during 2-3 first months after delivery divided in 2 equal groups (depressed and normal group who were named case and control group respectively).The Beck standard test and a researcher-made questionnaire were used for evaluation. Some factors effecting on depression were omitted in the study and some mother age and birth order were matched in 2 groups. X2 and T test were used to analyze the data.

Results:

The results showed that there was no relationship between kind of delivery and PPD (p<0/574).In cases group; mild, moderate and severe depression were 42/2%, 47/4% and 10/4% and normal vaginal delivery (NVD) was53/9% and in control group NVD was 47/8%. In this matter, there was no significant relationship between mother education and job, neonatal gender, number of live birth and wanted or unwanted pregnancy with PPD.

Conclusions:

There is no a relationship between kind of delivery and PPD.Its recommended to do cohort study and effect of other factors in PPD in much more sampling in future researches.

Keywords:

Postpartum depression, Normal vaginal delivery, Cesarean section