NURSING THEORY

Beck's Theory of Postpartum Depression



Beck's Theory of Postpartum Depression

Introduction

Another name for postpartum depression is postnatal depression. This is a clinical depression that has an impact on the women more commonly than in men. This depression occurs after childbirth and is prevailing in five to twenty-five percent of the women. However, occurrence of the percentage of postpartum depression among the men who newly become fathers is 1.2 and 25.5%.

Discussion

Some of the symptoms of the postpartum depressions are sadness and fatigue. Moreover, it also impacts the sleeping and the eating patterns also increase anxiety as well as irritability. There ...