Efficacy of Mixed Attachment Intervention on Postpartum Depression of Women in Isfahan

Abstract

Background: Most of women experience postpartum short or long term mood disorders and secure attachment between couple and being supported from husband has important role in improvement of this disorders. Objectives: Recent research aimed to investigate efficacy of mixed attachment intervention on postpartum depression in women of Isfahan. Patients and Methods:This study was an experimental plan with pretest-posttest and follow up with control group that conducted in a depended hospital of Isfahan University of medical sciences. Though 325 women that had natural delivery, 38 individuals were chosen who had no history of physical or mental disorder in pregnancy or before that and had taken higher scores in Edinburg depression questionnaire. Selected sample administered randomly to both 19 individuals experimental and control group. Mixed attachment intervention had been accomplished for experimental group as though control group had no intervention. ANCOVA method had been used to analysis the data. Results: Results of ANCOVA showed that the mean post-test and follow up scores of depression in the experimental group is significantly lower than that of the control group (P < 0.05). The effect rate of mixed attachment intervention on depression symptoms was 0.38 in posttest and 0.41 in three months follow up. Conclusions: With regard to function of couple`s affective relationship and importance of mother-child attachment, mixed attachment intervention was effective in reduction of postpartum depression symptoms and has important mentions in paying attention to attachment based therapies for decreasing the symptoms of postpartum depression.