The Association Between Postpartum Depression and Pica During Pregnancy

Ezzeddin, Neda and Zavoshy, Roza and Noroozi, Mostafa and Sarichloo, Mohammad Ebrahim and Jahanihashemi, Hassan (2015) The Association Between Postpartum Depression and Pica During Pregnancy. Global Journal of Health Science, 8 (4). p. 120. ISSN 1916-9736

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Abstract

INTRODUCTION & OBJECTIVES: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a common disorder and social debilitating that has adverse effects on the mother, child and family. Pica is an eating disorder characterized by persistent ingestion of substances that the consumer does not define as food. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of postpartum depression with pica during pregnancy.

METHOD: This is case-control study was carried out in health centers in west Tehran. 152 depressed women (case group) and 148 non-depressed women (control group) were selected randomly from these health care centers. In addition to collecting demographic and pica data, the Edinburgh Depression Scale was used. The data was analyzed by both descriptive and analytic analyses such as chi-squared and logistic regression in SPSS version 16.

RESULT: In this study, there wasn’t a significant association between PPD and pica during pregnancy (P=0.153, OR=2.043, CI=0.767, 5.438), but, postpartum depression has a significant association with type (clay) (P= 0.024) and duration (more than 2 months) (P= 0.023) of pica practice.

CONCLUSIONS: In the present study, pregnancy pica was not important risk factor for PPD but there were similar risk factors such as iron supplementation during and postpartum pregnancy with pica and PPD.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Grantha Library > Medical Science
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Date Deposited: 01 May 2023 07:32
Last Modified: 20 Jun 2024 13:25
URI: http://asian.universityeprint.com/id/eprint/784

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