Independent socio-demographic and clinical correlates associated with the perception of quality of life of women with postpartum depressionin North-central, Nigeria

AbstractObjective: Quality of life (QoL) is probably the most desired outcome of all health care policies and monitoring. This concept is seldom used on women in the postpartum, especially in the developing world.Aim: This study aimed at determining the independent socio-clinical variables associated with the perception of QoL of women with postpartum depression.Methods: A two-stage cross-sectional procedure was used to recruit 550 participants, out of whom 531 participants completed the questionnaires with 116 participants found to have postpartum depression and were the studied population, in Nigeria. The Socio-demographic questionnaire, the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Bref-26 and the Depression Module of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV axis I Diagnosis were used.Results: Participants with postpartum depression had significantly poor perception of QoL in all the four domains of the WHOQoL-BREF-26. The independent socio-demographic and ...