Prospective study of maternity blues and postpartum depression

Postnatal depressive mood in Turkish women

“…Using the definition of MB by Pitt (1968Pitt ( , 1973, the prevalence of MB in our study is 13.1% (core MB Group). In reports from European countries and the USA, the prevalence rates of MB have varied from 10% to 70%, and the prevalence can be remarkably high (Aguado, Moreno, & Palacio, 1996;Cox, Connor, & Kendell, 1982;Dalton, 1971;Kumar & Robson, 1984;Nagata et al, 2000;Rondon, 2003;Yamashita, Yoshida, Nakano, & Tashiro, 2000). Studies on postnatal depression, which is a later, more prolonged and more serious condition than the transient experience of MB, showed a prevalence of 10 -15% (Cooper & Murray, 1995, 1998Cox et al, 1987;Harris, Huckle, Thomas, Johns, & Fung, 1989;Kumar & Robson, 1984;O'Hara & Swain, 1996).…”

“…In our study, which made use of the ZSDS, we found the prevalence of postnatal depression to be 9.8% (prolonged MB group 4.8%; potential depression group 4.9%). A study from Spain, based on Zung's Depression Scale showed that 18% of hospitalized mothers experienced severe depression after the third day of childbirth (Aguado et al, 1996). Another study was carried out on 1,329 women, using Zung's Depression Scale, and the reliability of affective (items 1, 3, 4, 10, 13 and 15); cognitive (items 14, 17, 18 and 20) and attentional (items 11, 12 and 16) subscales were found to be .68, .84, and .77 (Cronbach's alpha) respectively (Sugawara, Sakamoto, Kitamura, Toda, & Shima, 1999).…”