Evaluation for risk of depression in pregnant women in a teaching hospital
International Journal of Development Research
Evaluation for risk of depression in pregnant women in a teaching hospital
Received 28th May, 2019; Received in revised form 11th June, 2019; Accepted 14th July, 2019; Published online 30th August, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Mariane Kosloski et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: to identify pregnant women predisposed to prenatal depression in a teaching hospital in Paraná. Method: Exploratory quantitative survey conducted with 43 pregnant women, who were in the third trimester of pregnancy. Data were collected at the nursing consultation and by applying the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, validated for Portuguese language. For association analysis it was used the Fisher's exact. Results: Women with depressive symptoms represented 20.45%; Women's sociodemographic data were unrelated to the risk index for depression. Conclusion: Prenatal care offered to women at risk for depression may improve, given that these women had not been identified with this depressive symptomatology, which may suggest a deficit of care regarding to the mental health of pregnant women. It is suggested that scales for identifying depressive symptoms should be applied by nurses during prenatal care, for identification, diagnosis and treatment during pregnancy.
