산후우울증에 관한 임상적 연구 = A Clinical Study on the Postpartum Depression

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In order to study the factors in influencing the incidence of postpartum depression,19 questions in the questionnaire were asked to 195 parturients who visited to Pusan National University Hospital and Pusan Mother and Children Health Center for prenatal care or for delivery, from May 1, 1990 to July 3`, 1990. Many factors including age, socioeconomic state, education level, religion, parental intervention during growth, love of husband, mood changed during pregnancy, delivery me-thod, marriage method, works during pregnancy, libido change after pregnancy, premarital coitus, sex of newborn were evaluated and the relations with the incidence of postpartum depression was studied. The results obtained were as follows: 1. The age group of 26-30 year which comprised of 45% of all cases was the most common and there was significant statistical relationship between age and incidence of post-partum depression(P<0.05).The incidence of postpartum depression of age group of 31 or more was 40.3%(62/154), and it represented higher incidence of postpartum depression than other age group. 2. There was no significant significant relationship between socioeconomic state and incidence of postpartum depression(P<0.05) 3.There was no significant relationship between education level, religion and incidence of postpartum depression respectively(P<0.05) 4. There was no signficant relationship between parental intervention during growth, love of husband and incidence of postpartum depression respectively(P<0.05) 5. There was significant statistical relationship between mood change during pregnancy and incidence of postpartum depression(P<0.05). The incidence of postpartum depression in the froup of moderate or more mood change during pregnancy was 40.3% (62/154), and it was higher than the group of no mood change during pregnancy. 6. There was no significant relationship between the delivery method and the incidence of postpartum depression(P<0.05) 7.There was significant statistical relationship between marriage method and the incidence of the postpartum depression(P<0.05).In the group of non-married, the incidence of postpartum depression was 69.2%(9/13), and it was hight than that of other group 8. There was no significant relationship between the incidence of postpartum depression and works during pregnancy libido change after pregnancy premarital coitus and sex of newborn respectively(P<0.05) 9. The most common symptom of postpartum depression was crying spells and the next was lack of satisfaction self, hate, guilty feeling sense of failure etc.