Prevalence and associated factors of paternal postpartum depression among fathers who come to postnatal follow up clinic with their partner in selected public health centers of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019.
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2019-06
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Addis Abeba University
Abstract
Background: Paternal postpartum depression is a serious public health problem which has a
significant effect on mortality and morbidity level and its effect is not limited to the father, but
it also affects the family, the marriage relationship and present and future child development.
Objective: To assess the prevalence and associated factors of paternal postpartum depression
among fathers who come with their partner in selected public health centers of Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, 2019.
Methodology: Institution based cross sectional study design was conducted among 423
fathers. Lottery sampling method was used to select the health center; the samples were
proportionally allocated to each health center. Finally the study participants were selected by
systematic sampling method. The collected data was entered to Epidata version 4.2.2.0.0 and
exported to SPSS for further analysis. The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) was
considered at a cutoff point ≥9 to detect depression. Descriptive statistics and Logistic
regression analyses was used to see the association of different variables.
Result: 423 fathers were interviewed in this study and 410 (97 %) were correctly completed
the questionnaire. 70(17%) of the participants had paternal postpartum depression. This study
showed that; family income [AOR= 3.0(95% C.I: 1.1- 8.2)], substance use [AOR=4.5 (95%
C.I: 1.5- 13.3)], family support [AOR= 3.9(95% C.I: 1.3-11.3)], marital relation [AOR=
4.1(95% C.I: 1.5- 11.0)], unplanned pregnancy [AOR= 3.5(95 %( C.I: 1.4- 8.7)], infant sleep
problem [AOR =10.0(95% C.I: 4.1- 24.0)], were significantly associated with paternal
postnatal depression.
Conclusion and recommendations:
This study results revealed paternal postpartum depression is a public mental health problem.
This suggests the need to provide paternal mental health assessment and screening, further
efforts to decrease substance use and on family planning utilization, and pre marriage
counseling during this period
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Paternal postpartum depression, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, fatherhood