Patients with postpartum breast cancer have been reported to have a poor prognosis. The present study aimed to evaluate the pregnancy-related risk factors of postpartum breast cancer in Korea. We collected patient data from the Korea National Health Insurance (KNHI) Claims Database of the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) for the 2009-2013 period. We evaluated the pregnancy-...

Background: Childbirth brings many changes to family and fathers who are at risk of depression.During this period, fathers face a lot of challenges and several new roles. Negative effects of paternal postpartum depression (PPND) affect arital/partner relationships, infant bonding, and child development. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of PPND and its relationship with s...

objectivet: to determine the prevalence and risk factors of postpartum depression among women living in zabol, a city in south-east of iran. method: 2 to 8 weeks after delivery, 408 women were assessed for depression and some of its risk factors. results: the prevalence of postpartum depression was (40.4 %). risk factors for the onset of post-partum depression included younger age, low income f...

BACKGROUND Episodes of postpartum psychosis have been associated with first pregnancies in women with bipolar I disorder. It is unclear, however, if the effect extends to episodes at other times in relation to childbirth and to women with other mood disorders such as major depression and bipolar II disorder. This primiparity effect, which is also seen in other pregnancy related conditions such ...

The labor period causes physiological, physical, and psychological changes in the patient that can affect quality of life, such as vaginal delivery or caesarean section, skin contact, breastfeeding, state after childbirth. Treatment by health facilities must include level safety, effectiveness, timeliness, organization, feasibility, approach to patients from external side will patient. Health s...

In view of the reported cases of mood disorders that occur in mothers following childbirth and believing that sex steroid hormones contribute to mood and behavioral changes, this study has been aimed to explore the role of sex steroid hormones as an etiological factor for postpartum depression (PPD). This study was conducted at JIPMER, Puducherry, India between January 2010 and 2011. 103 women ...

Postpartum depression (PPD), also called postnatal depression, is a leading complication in childbirth. PPD is a form of clinical depression which can affect women, and less frequently men, typically after childbirth. Although depression is thought to be most commonly experienced by new mothers and fathers soon after the birth, some women and men experience depression during pregnancy. Postpart...

Background and Objectives: Functional status of the mother after delivery is crucial for performing activities daily living caring newborn. It important to assess functional abilities childbirth in order improve quality postpartum care. The aim this study determine psychometric properties questionnaire childbirth. Materials Methods: This observational. Postpartum Assessment Questionnaire includ...

background postpartum depression has serious complications. there are various risk factors for postpartum depression and in some cases these are controversial. objectives this study tested the prevalence of postpartum depression and its related factors in kashan, iran, in 2006. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, 460 women referred to kashan’s health centers, during the second a...