Question

The topic of choice is Postpartum Depression and the psychological changes that occur

Ensure the following questions are addressed in each summary:

1. What type of research is it (quantitative, qualitative, and design)?
2. What was the research question(s) or hypothesis?
3. What is the sample, the sample size, and sample attributes?
4. What was the setting of the study?
5. What were the researcher’s findings? (Identify one.)

Answer 1

1)-Postpartum depression has been qualittive studied extensively in adult women but has been less explored in adolescents.5 Adolescent mothers are found to be at higher risk for developing PPD than their adult counterparts with studies suggesting adolescent PPD rates between 15% and 50%, whereas adult rates are approximately 10%.2,5.
In 2013, in the United States, more than 450,000 adolescent girls became pregnant before age 20.6 Of these pregnancies, 37% ended in legal abortions.

2)-Postpartum depression is the most prevalent emotional problem during a women's lifespan. Untreated postpartum depression may lead to several consequences such as child, infant, fetal, and maternal effects. The main purpose of this article is to briefly describe different theoretical perspectives of postpartum depression.

3)- Extreme sadness, low energy, anxiety, changes in sleeping or eating patterns, crying episodes, irritability
These may include factors such as hormonal changes and sleep deprivation.Risk factors include prior episodes of postpartum depression, bipolar disorder, a family history of depression, psychological stress, complications of childbirth, lack of support, or a drug use disorder.

4)- Postpartum psychiatric disorders can be divided into three categories: postpartum blues; postpartum psychosis and postpartum depression.1,2 Postpartum blues, with an incidence of 300‒750 per 1000 mothers globally, may resolve in a few days to a week, has few negative sequelae and usually requires only reassurance.1 Postpartum psychosis, which has a global prevalence ranging from 0.89 to 2.6 per 1000 births, is a severe disorder that begins within four week

5)- neurodevelopmental factors may be different in adolescents compared with adults. It is reported that while the serotonergic system appears to be well developed in adolescents, the noradrenergic system is not yet fully developed and this may be the reason adolescent depression is more responsive to treatment with selective serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) reuptake inhibitors than with noradrenergic antidepressants