International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research and Studies
Volume 4, Issue 5, 2024
Post-Partum Depression: A Case Study of the Wife of an Expatriate Pakistani
Author(s): Ayesha Rasheed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62225/2583049X.2024.4.5.3304
Abstract:
This study aims to explore the experience of post-partum depression in a woman that is the wife of an expatriate Pakistani. It probes into the psycho-social factor that boost the chances of past-partum depression among woman who gone through the c-section while giving birth to her 4th child in her husband’s absence while living in joint family system. This case study reported a woman with postpartum depression; facing psychosocial pressures while living in joint family system in rural area of Punjab. Edinburgh post-natal depression scale used to analyse her post-partum depression and DSM- V as the determinant of diagnostic criteria which revealed that psychosocial pressures, attachment issues and lack of social support made her vulnerable. Postpartum depression has varying symptoms and psycho-social factors irritating its symptoms.
Keywords: Post-Partum Depression, Wife of Expatriate, Psycho-Social Factors, Biopsychosocial Model
Pages: 647-650
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