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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Postnatal depression"”.
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Postnatal depression: a relational perspective
Current research conceptualizes postnatal depression as individual pathology or as a socio-political problem. By adopting a relational perspective, this thesis bridges the theoretical divides between individualistic and social explanatory frameworks, and between psychology and sociology. The self …
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Causes of postnatal depression : perceptions of recovered women
Investigations into the causes of postnatal depression are, with few exceptions, quantitative in nature. Although there are psychological, interpersonal and sociocultural perspectives on postnatal depression, the medical one dominates in terms of academic, professional and lay understandings of …
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Peer Support for Mothers with Postnatal Depression A Pilot Study
Background Postnatal depression (PND) is a global problem and an important public health issue. It is estimated that approximately 15% of women experience depression during the first postnatal year but there are problems in recognition because its clinical assessment can be complex. The incidence …
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Private Health Practitioners' experience of and attitude screening for Postnatal Depression
… private health care services are diagnosed with Postnatal Depression (PND) annually. Despite the high prevalence and the negative consequences for mother, child and partner, PND remains largely undiagnosed. Thus, this study explored health practitioners' experience of and attitude towards …
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Mothers’ neural response to valenced infant interactions predicts postnatal depression and anxiety
… perinatal affective disturbance are specific to depression/anxiety or are better attributed to a common component of internalizing distress. It is also unknown whether differences in mothers’ brain response can be accounted for by effects of past episodes, or if current neural processing of her …
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The experiences of mothers who received therapy for postnatal depression: a qualitative study
… psychiatric symptoms after the birth of a baby. Postnatal depression (PND) is the most widespread of such conditions, with an average incidence rate of 13%. Postnatal depression represents a serious public health concern because it may have adverse effects on the physical, emotional and cognitive …
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The prediction of antenatal and postnatal depression in a sample of Western Australian women
In Australia, the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS; Cox, Holden & Sagovsky, 1987) has been increasingly used to screen for antenatal depression prior to its evaluation on a sample of Australian pregnant women. Also, the identification of predictors associated with antenatal depression has …
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A study of a group intervention for postnatal depression at a community health care centre
Untreated postnatal depression may have serious and long-lasting consequences for mother and infant. These range from feelings of inadequacy and worthlessness in the mother to social, emotional, cognitive and behavioural disturbances in her child. Postnatal depression is also associated with …
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An investigation into how first generation Nigerian mothers living in the UK experience postnatal depression: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… studies exploring BME mothers’ experiences of Postnatal Depression (PND), there has been no research to date that has exclusively investigated the ‘lived’ experiences of the First Generation Nigerian Mothers (FGNMs) in relation to PND. This study is the first to investigate FGNMs’ postnatal …
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Emotional processing in childbirth: a longitudinal study of women's management of emotions during pregnancy and the association with postnatal depression.
… of pregnancy and birth and the emergence of postnatal depression. Aims: The study aimed to examine the relationship between the way women managed their emotions during pregnancy, as measured on the EPS and the development of postnatal depression, as measured on the Edinburgh Postnatal …
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The concept of normality as a component of help seeking and adaptation in couples with experience of postnatal depression: a grounded theory study
Postnatal depression is a significant challenge to the mental health of women of childbearing age. Partners and other family members are expected to provide support and care. This thesis extends the existing work to explore the experience of both partners in the couple relationship and to identify …
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Breastfeeding practices among women living with HIV who started antiretroviral therapy in pregnancy in Cape Town South Africa
… initiation and its association with postnatal depression using a bivariate analysis and a log-binomial regression. We also examined factors associated with breastfeeding duration and compared this duration in women at high risk of depression and those who were at low risk, using the …
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Maternal postnatal health and infant development
The postnatal period is a critical time for long-term infant development. The current research sought to investigate the differential associations between PND, maternal-infant attachment and breastfeeding on long-term child developmental outcomes (i.e., cognitive, language, neuromotor and …
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Motherhood and Psychological Distress after Childbirth: A Thematic-Dialogical Analysis of Pakistani-Muslim Women’s Experiences
… a mental health condition, an illness known as postnatal depression. According to Western psychiatry the experience of postnatal depression is universal for all women, regardless of ethnicity, culture, and socio-economic status. However, these factors are important and do shape women’s lived …
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A phenomenological exploration into the lived experience of fathers living with new mothers diagnosed as PND
Postnatal depression (PND) is a widely studied area of research but limited research can be found pertaining to partners of women suffering from postnatal depression. The current research aims to explore the lived experiences of the fathers and consider the impact that it has on all dimensions of …
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Risk Factors in the Development of Postnatal Anxiety Symptomatology
… psychopathology has focused largely on depression and only more recently has it been recognised that postnatal anxiety requires its own systematic research. As yet, only a limited number of studies have investigated interpersonal risk factors in relation to postnatal anxiety. This study …
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Early environments and neurobehavioural programming: Therapeutic actions of antidepressants. Neurobehavioural programming during development.
… psycho-pathologies, in particular clinical depression are more prevalent in humans with prior history of life-stress events. Interest in stress has led to questions about how it might affect the physiology and behaviour of animals exposed indirectly during gestational development. Not …
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A critical evaluation of a community based mother-infant intervention project with special emphasis on infant attachment
… of the project. Mothers were assessed for postnatal depression using the Edinburgh Postnatal . Depression Scale. Anthropometric data was collected throughout the project. At the end of the two-year intervention, infants were assessed using the Griffiths Scales of Mental Development and …
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