Screening of post-partum depression: A cross-sectional

study
1. Background and aim:
Post partum depression (PPD) as burdensome beginning happening inside
about a month of conveyance. PPD is evaluated to influence 10% of women who bear
children. Be that as it may, if the window of burdensome beginning is expanded to
three months the level of ladies experiencing misery increments. In spite of being a
particular subtype of Major Depression Disorder (MDD) the hidden physiology of
PPD has gotten little consideration, in spite of its conspicuous reason. Longitudinal
examinations have uncovered that ladies left untreated for PPD have disabled
subjective capacity, encounter expanded conjugal troubles, are bound to mishandle
their youngsters, submit child murder and bring up kids with debilitated intellectual,
motor and social advancement (A  Ahokas, J  Kaukoranta, M Aito Effect of oestradiol on
postpartum depression

Post‐partum depression has been found to influence somewhere in the range of 10%
and 15% of women in developed countries (O'Hara 1997). A vast assemblage of
research proof has ensnared such discouragement in unsettling influences in the early
mother– baby relationship and in compromised youngster improvement (Murray and
Cooper 2003). Longitudinal research of the offspring of moms with post‐partum
depression has discovered a raised rate of insecure newborn child connection,
impeded psychological improvement, explicitly in young men, and a lifted rate of
conduct and emotional issues (Murray and Cooper 2003).Bamalingaswami, V.,
Jonsson, U. & Rohde, J. (1996) Commentary on Nutrition, Progress of Nations. UNICEF,
New York, NY, USA.

Regardless of whether one takes an organic, mental, or psychosocial point of view,

discouragement in moms raises concerns about risks for the improvement of
psychopathology in children. This audit tends to the multifaceted nature of that risk
and the basic job of improvement in a model that clarifies procedures of transmission.
R D. Conger et al., Annual Review of Psychology

Psychopharmacology,  146 (1999), pp. 108-110)

The normal pervasiveness rate of non-psychotic post partum depression depends on
the result of countless number of studies is 13%. prevalence estimate are influenced
by the idea of the appraisal strategy (bigger gauges in studies utilizing self-report
measures) and by the length of the post partum period under assessment (longer
periods anticipate high prevalences). A meta-ajnalysis was attempted to decide the
sizes of the impacts of various putative hazard factors, estimated through pregnancy,
for post birth anxiety. The most grounded indicators of post partum depression were
previous history of psychopathology and mental aggravation during pregnancy, poor
conjugal relationship and low social help, and upsetting life occasions. At last,
pointers of low societal position demonstrated a little however huge prescient
connection to post partum depression
(~Eleanor Martin, Christina Weiland, Lindsay C. Page. (2018) Text-based
mentoring for postpartum mothers: a feasibility study. Early Child
Development and Care 0:0, pages 1-24. )
The aim of the study is to test the level of depression on woman after 2 to 24 weeks of
giving birth in patients visiting Saint George hospital in Achrafieh Beirut.
Is it more likely for woman to get depressed after giving birth 2 to 24 weeks?

Methods
Design:
A cross sectional observational design
Setting
Data will be collected from Saint Gorgeous Hospital in Beirut, Ashrafieh,
Lebanon from the outpatient clinic (OPD).
Subjects
An convenient sampling design will be employed; mothers visiting the
doctor’s office at the hospital OPD for a check up 2 weeks to 6 months post delivery.

Data collection tools:

a. Demographic data sheet:
A general information questionnaire recording the demographic and
professional features of the participants of the study was developed by the
researchers( these information includes : gender , age , qualifications , number of kids,
martial status, life style info, level of education, number of pregnancies … etc.)

b. Edinburgh scale:
This scale is used to measure the depression level for mothers after giving
birth by a such period of time,. The test takes 5 mins to be answered by the mother..
this test is The Edinburgh Post-natal Depression Scale (EPDS) was validated on a
community sample of 702 woman at six weeks post partum using Research
Diagnostic Criteria for depression.

Target and study population:

-woman after 2 to 24 weeks of having delivery that are visiting out patient clinics.
-Sample: minimum sample size is 100 participant

Inclusion criteria:

-Woman 2 to 24 weeks after giving birth.

-participants living in Beirut.

Exclusion criteria:

Woman that are already depressed

Woman under anti-depressant treatment

Statistical tool:

-SPSS

Study timeline:

Study will take time from 1-6-2020 to 1-1-2021

Ethical Considerations

The following ethical requirements will be taken into consideration during

the study:

 Approval to carry out the study from the Institutioanl review board (IRB ) of

Beirut Arab University (BAU) and St Georges hosopital and the hospital

administratuiion will be secured responsible authorities will be secured.

 Anonymity of the study subjects will be maintained, no names will be

recorded during data collection. Analyiss and reporting will be done

collectively without identidying patient data.

 Data obtained will be contained confidentially under lock and key with limited

access by those who are not inclved in the study..