Depressão pós-parto : uma investigação acerca dos fatores associados.

Abstract

As pregnancy, postpartum period is marked by a transformation in women’s life, being the period of the most incidence of psychic disorders that directly affect women’s psycological balance. During postpartum period, women tend to get used with the ideia of being a mother, going throught coping that occurs due to the physical, psycological, hormonal and social changes. Therefore, the health team have to be watchful to suffering psycological signs during pregnancy and postpartum and understand how much this period affects the psycological state of women. Postpartum depression is characterized as an intense and deeply suffering with severe and unstable humor changing after birth. So, the aim of this study was to identify possible risks factors associateed with postpartum depression. About methodologycal aspects, It is an exploratory and qualitative research. Six categories were obtained from the analysis of the results: “treatment searching”, “ambiguous feelings”; “medical history”; “received treatment”, “breast-feeding” and “baby cares”. It was identified that all the participants of the research have symptoms and spontaneously sought out the service. A great deal of ambiguous feelings were identified in the interviews. Three subjects have brought memories about domestic violence in their medical history. The most women have received good assistance during labor. Breast-feeding was identified, but interrupted in some months after birth. The most women said that received satisfactory help with baby cares. It was possible to realize that the risk factors related to postpartum period are multifactorial and unknown by the participants.