Postpartum depression assessment in nursing consultation
International Journal of Development Research
Postpartum depression assessment in nursing consultation
Received 11th December, 2019; Received in revised form 19th January, 2020; Accepted 03rd February, 2020; Published online 31st March, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Thaís Kruger et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objectives: Identify the sociodemographic profile and the predisposition of postpartum women to postpartum depression. Method: Cross-sectional, quantitative study carried out with puerperal women attended by the “Nursing Consultation in Prenatal and Postpartum Project”, admitted to a maternity hospital in Ponta Grossa, from August 2018 to January 2019. The instrument used for data collection was the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale. Results: 14% of the puerperal women attended by the “Puerperal Nursing Consultation project” were at risk for postpartum depression, with 33% in the age group of 16 to 22 years old, 73% white, 53% single, 53% with completed high school, 53% multigravity and 60% had a normal delivery. Conclusion: postpartum depression is a public health problem, and nurses need to be attentive and trained to early identify the symptoms and risk factors associated to this pathology, thus ensuring health for the mother-child binomial.
