Background:

the postpartum depression affects the woman among the 3 to first 6 days after labor.

Objective:

to establish the incidence and associated factors to the appearance of postpartum depression in postpartum mothers.

Methods:

a quantitative study of traverse court in a universe of 139 physiologic postpartum mothers resident in Bartolomé Masó town, Granma, in the last semester of the year 2018. It was carried out a structured interview that included inquiry instrument the Edinburgh Scale for Postpartum Depression being considered that 10 points or more supposes the depression presence.

Results:

the postpartum depression had a high incidence in the population associating statistically to the age smaller than 20 years, the single civil state, the holding of 2 children, the depression antecedents foresaw to the pregnancy and the antecedent of violence. The presence of the decease had a risk of very high suicidal ideation.

Conclusions:

the postpartum depression is a preventable decease with an important hidden morbidity, what transforms it into a problem of health plaintiff of more attention on the part of the sanitary authorities.

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