Maternal Depression and Its Associated Factors among the Mothers at Narayanganj in Bangladesh

Israt Jahan, Fatema Tuz-Zohra, Shamim Hossain, Moumita Mahmuda Pushan, Diponkar Das, Forhad Hossain, Abdur Razzak, Pinkulal Dey, Chowdhury Mahamudul Hasan, Md. Rakibul Hasan, Eyad Ahmed, Mohammad Asaduzzaman, Abdus Salam Mondol

Abstract


Maternal depression is becoming a serious public health concern in the world day by day. The purpose of the current study was to assess the maternal depression and its associated factors among the mothers of Narayanganj city in Bangladesh. A cross-sectional study was conducted in six different areas at Narayanganj in Dhaka among 377 mothers having children of five to ten years between the periods of May, 2019 to September, 2019. The respondents were selected by simple random sampling method. All data analysis was done by using IBM SPSS version 20.0. The mean age of the pregnant women was 26±4 years. It was found that about 77% of mothers had high depressive symptoms whereas 10.7%, 6.63% and 6.36% of mothers had moderate, mild and no depressive symptoms, respectively.  It was observed that family income, family size, age of children and age at marriage were significantly (p<0.05) associated with maternal depression status. Further investigations might be carried out to assess the effect size of the associated factors mentioned above.

Keywords: Maternal depression, mothers, children, associated factors.

DOI: 10.7176/JHMN/102-06

Publication date:September 30th 2022

 


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