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Revista Archivo Médico de Camagüey
On-line version ISSN 1025-0255
Abstract
GONZALEZ-GONZALEZ, Alianok et al. Associated factors for postpartum depression. AMC [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.6, pp.770-779. Epub Nov 19, 2019. ISSN 1025-0255.
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.
Keywords : DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM/epidemiology; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM/prevention&control; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; RISK FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES.