This article aims to identify, in the scientific literature, how psychological prenatal care helps during pregnancy and postpartum, verifying benefits it proposes, aiming at reducing postpartum depression mothers. is a narrative-type literature review that included articles from PEPSIC database. From methods, 05 (five) articles. In view of analysis chosen texts, was observed an important tool f...

introduction: one of the most common complaints in pregnancy is sleep disturbances which can cause depression. depression, too, is one of the most common complaints in pregnancy that can affect mother and fetus and even mother and neonate in postpartum period. therefore this research was accomplished by the objective assessment of relationship between sleep pattern and depression in the third t...

Mental health challenges can develop during the prenatal and postpartum periods when women face physical,mental, social adjustments. The major public concern is depression, which poses aserious threat to mothering has serious consequences for families. number of who experiencedepression pregnancy or within first 12 months after giving birth ranges from 10 20 percent.The clinics primarily use qu...

Prenatal stress (PNS) is associated with increased biological risk for mental disorders such as anxiety and depression later in life, and stress appear to be additive to the PNS influences. Among the most widely cited and accepted alternative hypotheses of anxiety and depression is dysfunction of the HPA axis, a system that is central in orchestrating the stress response. Therefore, understandi...

OBJECTIVE To assess the sociodemographic risk factors for the prevalence and incidence of relevant postpartum depressive symptoms. METHOD We studied a cohort of women in their perinatal period with the assistance of the public health system in the city of Pelotas-RS, Brazil. We assessed depressive symptoms with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) in the prenatal and postnatal peri...

Prenatal mood and biochemistry levels were assessed in women with (N = 70) and without (N = 70) depressive symptoms during their second trimester of pregnancy. At the neonatal period maternal and neonatal biochemistry, EEG and vagal tone levels were assessed, neonatal behavioral states were observed and the Brazelton neurobehavioral assessment was conducted. The mothers with depressive symptoms...

BACKGROUND Depression is the leading cause of disability for childbearing women. We examined three specific research questions among Punjabi-speaking women residing in the Fraser Health Authority: 1) What are the prevalence rates of prenatal depressive symptoms? 2) Do Punjabi-speaking women have a higher likelihood of reporting depressive symptoms compared to English-speaking women after contro...