Postnatal Depression Scholarly Journal

Scholarly Journal Article I chose this article because my step sister is currently going through postnatal depression. I wanted to learn more about it, and how they have tried to cure it. It very sad that a lot of mothers go through this and are so defeated by it. I’m glad I got to learn more about Postnatal depression. There are many women who have postnatal depression and don’t know quite how to cure it yet, that’s the many reason they did this research. The current study was necessary because the other thing either had scary effects of woman did not want to do it. There were a couple other experiment though. One used an antidepressant, which is usually the first option given to women with postnatal depression. But there are side effects
More than half the participates were woman who only gave birth once. Also most were married or had a significant other. The antidepressants are more of a mind game. If you take them and you want them to work. Most the time they do. But if you take them and do not want them to work then they most likely will not work. Psychological interventions have a huge benefit to them, also low levels of depression symptomatology. There was Signiant improvement after 4 to 6 months after intervention. Another study was on how many women dropped below the line of depression after interventions, a significant amount of woman dropped after that. The psychological interventions lower stress and anxiety really well. The interventions also help social aspects, improves relationships, and tries to get used to being a parent. There were two things found with the use of antidepressants. One was used as a control and actually helped decreased the amount of depression. The other one did not change the participant’s mood at all what so
Like how doing some of the rest and treatments actually help with anxiety, stress, and relationships. This article had all the information one would need about this study. The author never specifically mentioned any future reserch but he could do more with different types of participants to see if any data changes. There isn’t really much else you can do to try and cure postnatal depression besides needed someone who wants to be helped. So all in all this study was a success in helping many women with postnatal