Open AccessA study on postpartum depression and its association with infant feeding practices and infant nutritional status among mothers attending the anganwadi centers of Valsad district, Gujarat, India
Author(s) -
Trupti Amipara,
Hinal Baria,
Sunil Nayak
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_171_19
Subject(s) - medicine , breastfeeding , postpartum depression , malnutrition , nonprobability sampling , cross sectional study , family medicine , breast feeding , environmental health , pediatrics , demography , population , pregnancy , genetics , pathology , sociology , biology
Systematic reviews on postpartum depression (PPD) suggest that PPD mothers are more likely to interrupt exclusive breastfeeding with inappropriate feeding practices resulting malnutrition in child. A community-based study was planned with the objective to find the risk factors associated with PPD and its possible association on infant feeding practices and infant nutritional status.