How women cope with postpartum depression research

Mothers affected by this kind of depression are linked with guilt, anxiety, discord and fatigue associated with sleep deprivation at night as well as at day time. Postpartum depression subjects mothers to a feeling of discomfort which if not treated or contained well and at early stages leads to traumatic disorders. Mothers sometimes and often catch the feeling of guilt since they may feel that they hurt their babies during pregnancies or during delivery. This feeling subjects them to low self-esteem, which leads to self-denial. Women struggle with this feeling until it is repaired and managed, (Ugarriza, 2002). Medically, it is managed by patients of this complication taking medication purposely for depression. Guidance and counselling is also administered to women with this complication in order to help reorganize emotional imbalance within them and to provide new hope to women after delivery.

According to, (Ugarriza, 2002), patients of this disorder are required to come out openly in order to get necessary help from the right people. The kind of relationships existing within a family set up is what determines social help for patients. Friends, and family members play pivotal role in helping women affected by postnatal depression in reorganizing their emotions and in settling the discomforts in their hearts. Women who conceive at very early ages face low self-esteem and self-denial. Another scenario is women who have had a history of depression before they become pregnant. What happens is that these women conceive while they have existing distorted mental and thought patterns and processes. This implies that, coupled with the frustrations that come with nurturing pregnancy and childbirth, these women stand a better position of being affected by postpartum depression.

Research has shown that, the many children has, the more predisposed is that woman to postpartum depression. This condition should be diagnosed early enough in order to adopt the best strategies to manage this condition. A research conducted on women refugee immigrants in Canada showed that; there are three key factors which led to postpartum depression in women in women refugees in Canada. Socioeconomic factors, cultural factors and language barriers were outlined as key parameters which exposed immigrants to PPD in Canada. The inability of women refugees to speak in one tongue as the Canadian citizens was a limiting factor to women refugees. They felt segregated, disowned and unconsidered for national cake benefits from the government. However, the women refugees in Canada faced a challenge in seeking help since they were socially alienated, financially incapacitated and could not associate with Canadian culture.

As a result of social alienation, these women refugees faced stigma for their conditions. Additionally, their inability to publicly seek assistance made their conditions to worsen with more problems cropping up critically. Another lot affected by postpartum depression is the black minority women in rural communities. This group of people has been highlighted by the other society as weak and worth to be neglected. This shows that if women needs were carefully considered and taken care of, this would be a major milestone towards encouraging women to seek help and to express their conditions without disguising. Notably a major challenge for women in seeking assistance especially the medication aspect is the inability to create time for such. A survey done on women at the last trimester of their pregnancies showed that 65% of women couldn’t create time for medical check-up for depressive conditions.

This has the implication that, alongside other challenges such as lack of awareness, stigma and poor healthcare, a majority of women acted in ignorance in not seeking medical attention through creating time for that. However, another study showed that women shy off from publicly disclosing their conditions for being profiled negatively by the society. Based on severity of depressive disorders, both intervention strategies could be applied separately or as a combination. Women require support morally in order to help them in realigning their mental thought patterns and processes. Counselling plays critical role in helping people forget their past, current and recurring traumatic events. It restores hope and gives meaning to life to the broken hearted. Pharmacological intervention strategies also play critical role in conjunction with psychosocial intervention strategies to healing victims of postnatal depression, (Woolhouse, et al, 2009).

Additionally, the ignorance portrayed by affected women in seeking treatment and counselling for this complication remains in question which has promoted severity and damage caused by PPD in new mothers. Out 13% of mothers affected by upon childbirth, only a few will be willing to seek treatment for their problems. Purpose of the Study This study will be conducted to purposely explore in details how women cope with postpartum depression after childbirth. This research is prompted by the extant challenges and barriers affecting women in seeking treatment for their depressive disorders and the sensitivity in this menace in subjecting new mothers to serious traumas if left uncontrolled or untreated at the right time. Research question The following were the research questions for the research; i.

This will serve to eliminate some of the barriers facing women affected by postpartum depression in seeking assistance. The deliverables of this study will help professionals in health sector to better understand problems that affect new mothers that are associated with depressive disorders. Additionally, the results of this research will provide better intervention strategies to be used by health professionals in helping victims of postpartum depression. This will give health experts the opportunity to better serve their patients and in administering better counselling to those patients who require other counselling therapy apart from or alongside pharmacological treatments. References Ugarriza, D. Cultural background and socioeconomic influence of immigrant and refugee women coping with postpartum depression.  Journal of immigrant and minority health, 15(2), 300-314.