this study is aimed to compare two treatment modalities in term of decreasing depression symptoms in divorced women in city of tehran. it is an experimental study .the beck depression test was done in divorced women with depression symptoms, then they were randomly assigned to 2 groups, one group received only pharmacologic agents and the other group received both medication and cognitive thera...

background: the objective of this study was an investigation of the association between depression and sleep quality. materials and methods: th is cross-sectional study was performed on 360 delivered women that referred to thirty health-care centers in ardabil, iran. the standard pittsburgh sleep quality index questionnaire was used to the investigation of sleep quality. we used the edinburgh p...

BACKGROUND Postnatal depression can have a major impact on the lives of women affected and on those around them. While effective treatments are available, it would be preferable to prevent the condition. The aim of this review was to examine the effectiveness of antenatal interventions designed to prevent postnatal depression in high-risk women. METHODS Randomised controlled trials of interve...

Previous studies estimate that about 10 to 15 percent of mothers suffer from postpartum depression, yet for many of these mothers their depression remains unrecognized and untreated.1-3 The few studies that have examined helpseeking among mothers with postpartum depression show that the majority of these mothers do not seek help from any source and only about 20 percent consult a health profess...

We describe the association between postpartum depression and the quantity and content of infant media use. Households with depressed mothers viewed twice as much television as households with non-depressed mothers did, and depressed mothers appeared to derive comparatively greater pleasure from television viewing. Maternal depression was associated with an increased exposure to child-directed ...

A randomized controlled trial evaluated the effect of telephone-based peer support (mother-to-mother) on preventing postpartum depression among high-risk mothers. This paper reports volunteers' perceptions, which showed that peer support is an effective preventative intervention. Two-hundred and five (205) volunteers were recruited and trained to provide peer support to 349 mothers randomized t...

ôbjective: â depressive disorder is an illness that involves the body, mood, thoughts and behaviors. this study was performed to identify the presence of depression among medical students of ürmia üniversity of medical sciences. methods: â descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 700 undergraduate medical and basic sciences students. beck depression inventory (bdï) used for data gathe...