VAJİNAL VE SEZARYEN DOĞUM YAPAN KADINLARDA POSTPARTUM DEPRESYON VE SOSYAL DESTEK İLİŞKİSİNİN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

Objective: This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of postpartum depression in women following normal vaginal delivery and caesarean section, to review some variables that are believed to be associated and to assess the relationship between the level of social support and postpartum depression. Material and methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted on postpartum women presented to a Training and Research Hospital’s Gynecology Polyclinic in Sakarya between January and June 2019. The study group consisted of 710 women in total. In the study group, 355 women had normal vaginal delivery and 355 women had Caesarean section. The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale was used to determine the level of postpartum depression. Level of social support was assessed with the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support. The questionnaire forms prepared in line with the study objective were completed by the investigators with face-to-face interview method. Chi-square test, Student’s t-test and Mann-Whitney U test were used for statistical analyses. Statistical significance value was accepted as p ≤ 0.05. Results: The age of women in the study group ranged from 19 to 43, with a mean age of 28.96 ± 5.40 years. Prevalence of postpartum depression was found to be 24.4% in this study. Prevalence of postpartum depression was 21.7% in women who had normal vaginal delivery and 27.0% in women who had Caesarean section. In the Caesarean section group, postpartum depression was higher in women whose educational level is secondary school and lower, whose family income level is poor, those with a history of any health problem during pregnancy, those with no history of food craving during pregnancy, those who gave birth to a baby with a birth weight of