Masoumeh Kashkouli; Saeedeh Ziaei
Volume 27, Issue 2 , July and August 2020, , Pages 267-273
Abstract
Introduction: Postpartum depression (PPD) is an episode of major depression that has many negative effects on the mother and the newborn child. Some factors have been identified as the predictive factors for PPD in peripartum such as Peripartum and Postpartum Depression, and preterm labor. The aim of ...
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Introduction: Postpartum depression (PPD) is an episode of major depression that has many negative effects on the mother and the newborn child. Some factors have been identified as the predictive factors for PPD in peripartum such as Peripartum and Postpartum Depression, and preterm labor. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between breastfeeding and PPD.Material and Methods: This research was a longitudinal study conducted in Darreh Shahr County, Ilam Province in 2015-2016. Of the 365 women who were pregnant about 38 weeks, 303 ones who had no depression according to the Edinburgh questionnaire were put under the study. The under study group was reexamined again with the Edinburgh questionnaire 6 to 8 weeks after delivery. 31 of them achieved grade 13 or greater of whom 29 ones were approved that had depression by a psychiatrist. The study was conducted on this group. Afterwards the relationship between breastfeeding and PPD and other effective variables including type of delivery, place of residence and etc, was investigated by dividing the samples into two groups namely depressed and non-depressed subjects. Results: Among the variables studied it was only breastfeeding that was connected to postpartum depression (P=0/004). This relationship was also positive (P =0/ 02) in the multivariate regression analysis.Conclusion: The results revealed that in the case of exclusive breastfeeding, the rate of PPD was decreased. Due to the high rate of prevalence of PPD