Depression and second-hand smoking exposure during pregnancy in postpartum women

Abstract

Background: About 10% of new mothers develop postpartum depression; however, some experts believe that the number is higher as many of them never seek for treatment.

Objectives: The aims of this cross-sectional descriptive study were to study postpartum depression and its related factors among postpartum women who received urine examination for second-hand smoking during pregnancy.

Methods: The data were collected from 106 postpartum women duration after childbirth by:
1) Personal information questionnaire;

2) Thai version of Edinburgh postnatal depression scale (EPDS);

3) personal resource questionnaire (PRQ Part-II);

4) newborn health; and

5) direct barbituric acid (DBA) method and analyzed by descriptive statistics, i.e., chi-square test, independent
sample t-test, One-way ANOVA and Pearson product moment correlation coefficient.

Results: The result showed the prevalence of postpartum depression according to EPDS Thai version was 5.7%. And prevalence of second hand smoke was 42.5 percent. The significantly related factors with postpartum depression were individual income, sufficient income, unintended pregnancy, period of second-hand smoke exposure, knowledge about second-hand smoke exposure effects and social support.

Conclusion: This study founded second-hand smoke exposure rate in high level. The prevalence of postpartum depression was 5.7%. However, second-hand smoke exposure has related with child health.