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Objective:To investigate the mediating effect of rumination in primiparae on the expectation gap of social support and postpartum depression, so as to provide a reference basis for early detection and intervention in the regulation of meternal postpartum depression.Methods:In this cross-sectional study, questionnaires were administered from November 2021 to March 2022 using the general information questionnaire, the Ruminant Thinking Response Scale, the Postpartum Social Support Scale, and the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale to 266 primiparae at three tertiary level A hospitals, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi′an Jiaotong University, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi′an Jiaotong University, and the Northwest Women′s and Children′s Hospital, for postpartum review, and the relationship between ruminant thinking, social support expectation gap, and postpartum depression was analyzed using correlation analysis, structural equation modeling, and application of Bootsrap method.Results:The social support expectation gap, ruminative thinking, and postpartum depression average scores were (16.74 ± 12.77), (39.43 ± 4.14), (6.77 ± 2.77) points, respectively.There were positive correlations between social support expectation gap and ruminative thinking, postpartum depression, and ruminative thinking and postpartum depression ( r=0.62, 0.75, 0.70, all P<0.01). Primiparae ruminative thinking partially mediated the relationship between social support expectation gap and postpartum depression, with the mediating effect accounting for 22% of the total effect. Conclusions:Social support expectation gap can directly affect the occurrence of postpartum depression, but also indirectly through ruminative thinking, and postpartum depression can be prevented and intervened from the perspective of reducing ruminative thinking in clinical practice.
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Objective:To investigate the relationships of expectation gap of postpartum support with perceived stress and postpartum depression, and the mediating role of the former in the association between the latter two.Methods:A total of 278 convenient sample of puerperas at 6-8 weeks after delivery from June to August in 2019 in Shenzhen Hospital of Southern Medical University were investigated with the Perceived Stress Scale, the Chinese version of the Postpartum Social Support Questionnaire, and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. Structure equation model was established and Bootstrap method was used to explore the direct and indirect effects of these variables.Results:The perceived stress score, and expectation gap of postpartum support score were (26.50±2.50), (25.30±5.79), respectively; and the postpartum depression score was (14.60±2.10). The incidence of postpartum depression(defined as postpartum depression score ≥10) was 37.4%(104/278). Path analysis showed that the model was well fitted (χ 2/ df was 0.265, Tucker-Lewis index was 1.0, comparative fit index was 1.0,root mean square of approximate error was 0, root mean square of standard deviation and residual error was 0.04). Perceived stress positively correlated with expectation gap of postpartum support, and postpartum depression ( P<0.05). Expectation gap of postpartum support positively correlated with postpartum depression ( P<0.05). The effect of perceived stress on postpartum depression was partially mediated by expectation gap of postpartum support (Estimate was 0.285, 95% CI 0.197-0.352). Conclusions:Perceived stress had direct or indirect effect via expectation gap of postpartum support on postpartum depression. This indicated that the medical staff can build a comprehensive support system, reduce the experience of perceived stress among puerperas, improve social support satisfaction, and thus reduce the incidence of postpartum depression.
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Objective To explore the relationship between expected drop and postpartum depression,analysis of influence factors of postpartum depression.Methods Chinese version of Postpartum Support Questionnaire and Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale were used to investigate 411 puerpera of 42-56 days postpartum by the convenience sampling method.Results The incidence rate of postpartum depression was 17.03％ (70/411).The correlation coefficient r between the actual situation of postpartum social support and the score of each dimension and the score of Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale was 0.157 to 0.247 (P ＜ 0.01).The correlation coefficient r between the postpartum social support expectation drop and the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale score was 0.173 to 0.230 (P ＜ 0.01).Regression analysis showed postpartum depression was related to emotional support,nursing mode,registered permanent residence and gender expectations for baby.Conclusions The positive rate of postpartum depression is still higher.How to reduce the incidence of postpartum depression is still a problem to be solved.According to the characteristics of social support and maternal postpartum to evaluate the importance of targeted social support can reduce the incidence of postpartum depression.