5 Pregnant Men: Paternal Postnatal Depression and a Culture of Hormones

Oxley, Rebecca

doi:10.1515/9781474419307-007

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“…Empirical (Fonseca, Gorayeb, & Canavarro, 2015;Ko, Farr, Dietz, & Robbins, 2012;Philpott & Corcoran, 2018) and first-person narratives (Swami, 2019) suggest that mothers experiencing depressive symptoms are much more likely than fathers to be diagnosed and receive optimal health care. In part, this reflects the perpetuation of erroneous public beliefs about postnatal depression, such as the myth that the condition is only triggered by gender-specific factors (e.g., pregnancy-or postpartum-induced hormonal changes, delivery complications, unsuccessful breastfeeding; Chew-Graham, Sharp, Chamberlain, Folkes, & Turner, 2009;Ugarriza, 2002), which in turn leads to perceptions that fathers are "immune" to depressive symptoms (Oxley, 2017). In a similar vein, postnatal depression is sometimes viewed as being primarily or solely caused by neurochemical changes that only affect women (e.g., changes in progesterone, estrogen, and prolactin during pregnancy; Swami, 2019).…”

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Mental Health Literacy of Maternal and Paternal Postnatal Depression in a Community Sample of Romanian Adults

Swami

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Goian

et al. 2020

International Perspectives in Psychology

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Postnatal depression affects a large proportion of Romanian parents, but no existing research has examined knowledge of postnatal depression in Romanian adults. To rectify this, we examined the ability of Romanian adults to correctly identify cases of maternal and paternal postnatal depression, as well as attitudes toward cases of postnatal depression. A total of 1,248 Romanian adults were presented with vignettes describing cases of maternal or paternal postnatal depression. Based on the vignettes, participants were asked to report if they thought anything was wrong with the targets and, if so, to describe what they thought was wrong. Participants also rated the targets on several attitudinal dimensions. Participants were more likely to indicate that something was wrong when the target was female (67.9%) compared with male (46.4%). Of those who believed something was wrong, 57.7% of participants correctly described the female target as experiencing postnatal depression, but only 37.1% did so for the male target. Women held significantly more positive attitudes toward the targets than men, particularly when the target was female. Mental health literacy of postnatal depression appears to be poor in Romanian adults compared with other national groups, especially in the case of paternal postnatal depression.

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