THE INFLUENCE OF MARITAL ADJUSTMENT, CHILDCARE STRESS ADJUSTMENT, AND TIME OF RETURN TO WORK ON POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION SYMPTOMS FOR PRIMIPARAE IN THE FIRST YEAR POSTPARTUM.
Contributors: University of California, San Francisco.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Psychology, Clinical.; Psychology, Industrial.
Description: The predictive influence of three psychosocial factors (marital adjustment, childcare stress adjustment, and time of return to work) on maternal depression symptoms at 6, 9, and 12 months postpartum, were investigated. Seventy-one of a sub-sample of 202 primiparae (Affonso, NR01387-01, 1986-1989) were primarily educated, white, middle-class, married women in their early 30's, who returned to work within the first postpartum year. Regression analyses indicated marital adjustment and childcare stress adjustment significantly influenced maternal depression symptoms at 9 and 12 months, and at 6, 9, and 12 months, respectively. Time of return to work did not significantly influence either marital or childcare stress adjustment. Additional descriptive analyses indicated 80.3% returned to work by 12 months, with 64.9% returning prior to 4 months, suggesting the need for further investigation of how primiparae adapt to stresses of returning to work, childcare, and family concerns in the first postpartum year.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-11, Section: B, page: 5645.

Thesis (D.N.S.)--UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, 1992.

School code: 0034.