Postpartum Depression and Analysis of Treatments and Health Determinant

The objective of this paper is to develop a thorough understanding of treatments lendable for mothers with postnatal depression and formulate a research question that piece of ass provide for future direction. Postpartum depression is universally recognized as a serious trail affecting 10-15% of women within a social class of birth (OHara & Swain, 1992). The high prevalence of postpartum depression among mothers makes this an issue expenditure exploring the type of treatments available. A set of physical and psychological symptoms are associated with this condition that greatly increase the detriment of postpartum depression. These symptoms can be bedded on several designed scales by health care professionals. It is master(prenominal) to understand that even with a high prevalence rate of postpartum depression among women more cases go untreated. (Buist, Barnett, Milgrom, Pope, Condon, Ellwood, Boyce, Austin & Hayes, 2002). An analysis of five studies leave alon e introduce the available treatments and the possibility that social support in cabal with personal physical maintenance maybe the best treatment for women with modest or moderate postpartum depression. In the first study Gjerdingen (2002) investigates the miscellaneous treatments but particularly the pharmacological treatments. Gjerdingen (2002) stresses the importance of administered treatment based on severity of diagnosis, such that healthcare professionals arrogately identify the state of public assistance of the patient and appropriately respond. As presented in the article, the US Preventive operate Task Force strongly recommends screening for depression to be do through clinical services that have systems insuring proper diagnosis and appropriate interventions. Gjerdingen (2002... ...eme bequeath also be covered in the remainder of the studies and will be used when formulating the final research question. In trying to go down the efficacy of cognitive behaviour al therapy and counselling Milgrom, Negri, Gemmill, McNeil, Martin (2005) discuss the influence of the health care system questioning the efficiency and accuracy of transferable skills. It was opinionated that personal counselling was easier for professions to obtain the skills versus group CBT. This raises the question will transferability of skills among health care professionals affect the completion and result of treatment? In addition, many intervention studies are lacking formal clinical diagnosis and clear clinical measures of depressive symptoms. As a result this makes the replication of studies difficult and therefrom the correct transferability of skills would be lacking.