Risk Factors Of Postpartum Depression: A Study At 4-Weeks Postnatal

The study aims to identify possible risk factors of developing postpartum depression of mothers 4 weeks postpartum, this study is a descriptive self-administered study conducted on mothers at 4 week postnatal visits to OB-GYN clinic. Patients were excluded if they were currently using anti-depressants and/or were not at their 4-week post-natal visit. The 10-question Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) was used as a screening tool for PPD. Analyses were performed to determine whether smoking, breastfeeding status, marital status, mode of delivery, number of births, income, working status, having chronic diseases, history of psychiatric diseases, previous diagnosis of postpartum depression, gestational age, other variables which identified risk cases.this data set includes the spreadsheet including all the data collected from participants and the analysis obtained from those data