The prevalence and relevant factors of paternal depression during a partners pregnancy in Japan

Autor: Yuko Uemura, Masako Okano, Keiko Matsumura, Kumiko Kido, Akemi Mitani
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: International Journal of Nursing and Midwifery. 12:120-129
ISSN: 2141-2456
DOI: 10.5897/ijnm2020.0454
Popis: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of paternal depression and the relevant factors associated with paternal depression, mainly focusing on occupational stress. The present study was focused on paternal depression during their partners’ pregnancy as the first part of longitudinal studies. The participants were fathers whose partners were in the third trimester of their pregnancies. Items from the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in Japanese (EPDS-J, cutoff point ≥13), sociodemographic details, major background factors, the marital relationship, occupational stress, and satisfaction were included in the questionnaire for the survey on postnatal depression. Responses were obtained from 494 participants through Macromill, which is a marketing research company with monitors throughout Japan. IBM SPSS® Statistics version 24.0 and EZR was used for statistical analysis, and P
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