Paternal post-partum depression: How has it been assessed? A literature review

The assessment of paternal postpartum depression (PPD) is not part of the standard evaluations despite its relevance. The following study aimed to identify and describe how PPD and/or depressive symptoms in men have been assessed during the first year of fatherhood, specifically to identify the main methodological and diagnostically characteristics of the studies with a specific respect to the reported frequency of paternal and maternal depression in the first year after the birth of a child. Peer-reviewed studies published between January 2005 and January 2016, documenting depression or depressive symptoms in men within the first trimester to one-year postpartum were retrieved from different databases. 52 meet the inclusion criteria Most of them were performed in Europe, were longitudinal, and used self-applied questionnaires. Paternal depressive symptoms showed frequencies between 1.8 and 47 per cent and the presence of maternal depression showed a range that fluctuated between 2.3 and 58.05 percent of prevalence.

Información de Publicación

Autores:

Francisca Sofía Pérez

Institución: Universidad Alberto Hurtado
Facultad: Psicología
Unidad: Psicología

Paulina Brahm

Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica
Facultad: Medicina
Unidad: Departamento de Medicina Familiar

María Soledad Riquelme

Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica
Facultad: Medicina
Unidad: Departamento de Psiquiatría

Claudia Rivera

Institución: Universidad de Melbourne
Facultad: Educación

Karina Jaramillo

Institución: Universidad de Chile
Facultad: Medicina
Unidad: Escuela de Salud Pública

Andreas Eickhorst

Institución: Instituto de la Juventud, München
Facultad:

Revista:

Mental Health & Prevention

Año:

2017

Mes:

Diciembre

Url de Publicación:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mhp.2017.07.001.