Dr. Wendy Warren Austin
English 102-037
2/9/09
Annotated Bibliography:
What Predispositions Can Make Woman Who Have a Baby at Greater Risk of Postpartum Depression?
(1) “Frequently Asked Questions: Depression During and After Pregnancy” 1 Oct. 2008. Office on Women’s Health in the US Department of Health and Human Services. 15 Feb. 2009
This website was an information site on frequently asked questions about depression during and after pregnancy. It had a broad range of questions such as what is depression, what are the symptoms/causes, are their woman who are at higher risk for postpartum depression, what should I do if I have symptoms of postpartum depression, ect. I believed it was a good site because it was created by the women’s health part of the US department of health and human services, which is a government controlled office. Also reading other sources it appears they have accurate information.
(2) Murkhoff, Heidi, and Sharon Mazel. What to Expect When You’re Expecting 4th edition. New York: Workman Publishing, 2008.
This book is all about what to expect when you’re pregnant. They have a section on postpartum depression. The book is informative and question and answer form. All answers and information are compiled from experience, research and common knowledge all put into one handbook for expecting mothers. The postpartum depression section is a few pages, but accurate information in my opinion after reading other sources. It goes over what postpartum depression is, and how it’s treated. It helps me further understand what postpartum depression is and how to better define it.
(3) Dennis, Cindy Lee, and E. Hodnett. “Psychosocial and Psychological Interventions for Treating Postpartum Depression” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews issue 4 (2007). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Ebscohost.
This HTML article was about how effective psychological interventions are on treating postpartum depression. It explained what postpartum depression is and what different psychological resources given work; such as different types of therapy, or medications. They researched using different methods of therapy of treating women with postpartum depression to figure out the best therapeutic approach to treating postpartum depression and understanding it better. This article will help my paper in understand postpartum depression further.
(4) Dennis, Cindy-Lee, and Lori E. Ross. “The Clinical Utility of Maternal Self-Reported Personal and Familial Psychiatric History in Identifying Woman at Risk for Postpartum Depression.” Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica 85 (2006): 1179-1185.
This article was written about a longitudinal study about whether postpartum depression could be predicted if there were previous known psychiatric issues among relatives of the mother. They found that woman with family psychiatric issues were 4 times more likely to show symptoms of postpartum depression after 8 weeks of giving birth. It also talks about that psychiatric history is not one single cause in postpartum depression. It also can't 100% accurately predict whether or not a woman who gives birth will experience postpartum depression within the first 8 weeks after birth. I think this will be useful in my paper.
(5) Zlotnick, Caron, and W. Ivan, and Teri Pearlstein, and Margaret Howard, and Patrick Sweeney. “A preventive intervention for pregnant women on public assistance at risk for postpartum depression.” American Journal of Psychiatry 163 (2006): 1443-1445.
This article was another study done on women who are on public assistance, generally low income woman. They assessed whether they were more at risk for postpartum depression, and found that there was a correlation between them. Also they tested whether or not a therapy session would help to prevent postpartum depression in low income woman. They found these therapy sessions did improve the outcome, and they are doing further research if more therapy is given if the results will improve even further. This article really is helpful in my paper because low income was one of my factors in deciding if that’s a predisposition in postpartum depression. This article has shown that there is a correlation.
(6) Mazzeo, Suzanne E., et al. “Associations among postpartum depression, eating disorders, and perfectionism in a population-based sample of adult women”. International Journal of Eating Disorders 39 (2006): 202-211.
This article was written about a study done on whether there is an association between eating disorders and other similar disorders and postpartum depression. They found that women who have eating disorders also had a very high result in postpartum depression diagnosis. This further proved and showed there are predispositions to postpartum depression.
(7) Davis S. “Exploring the postpartum adjustment questionnaire as a predictor of postpartum depression” JOGNN: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing 37 (2008): 622-630.
There is a questionnaire given to mothers in postpartum usually at a checkup or while still in the hospital. This article explored the effectiveness in predicting and pre-diagnosing postpartum depression. It explored whether or not it actually could show that a woman has postpartum or at least symptoms of it to further investigate in a possible diagnosis, and treatment. This questionnaire helps me understand what questions are asked in predetermining postpartum depression.
(8) Magalhaes, Pedro. “Pharmacological Treatment of Postpartum Depression” Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 113 (2006): 75-76.
This was a study done on medications effectiveness in postpartum depression. They found it to be effective, but more research still needs to be done on how effective. This was basically a general insight into its medications effectiveness in treating postpartum depression. Therapy still needs to be implicated in the treatment though.
(9) Austin, M., et al. “Antenatal screening for the prediction of postnatal depression: validation of psychosocial pregnancy risk questionnaire” Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 112 (2005): 310-317.
There are two tests given to predict or diagnose postpartum depression. This study was to see if the two tests were closely equal in accuracy. They found that they are closely accurate in prediction by giving a test before postpartum period begins. This article helps by the questions given show that there are risk factors in accurately predicting postpartum depression.
(10) Josefsson, A, et al. “Temperament and character in women with postpartum depression” Archives of Women's Mental Health 10 (2007): 3-7.
This article was written on whether there is a correlation between personality and postpartum depression. They researched different personalities, and whether or not a certain personality would be able to be used to predict the prevalence of postpartum depression. personality can be used as a predisposition because it can derive from different reasons for the personality; such as previous diagnosis of psychological disorders.
