QUANTITATIVE ARTICLE CRITIQUE

Promoting responsiveness between mothers with depressive symptoms and their infants

Critical Evaluation of the Research Article

Research problem/ Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to understand the promoting responsiveness between the mothers with depressive symptoms and their infants. This paper discusses the effectiveness of an interactive coaching intervention which is designed to endorse the receptiveness between the mothers facing the postpartum depressive symptoms (PPDS) and their infants.

The interactive coaching intervention could be effective for nurses in order to find the relationships between the mothers facing the depressive symptoms with their infants. This data could help in understanding the main causes of the depression after delivery and solutions of this depression.

The problem statement in this study is not much clear. The researchers in this study have not much identified the clear picture of this research article. The problem statement or the purpose of the research only specifies the effectiveness of the interactive coaching intervention.

Review of Literature

Nursing research on PPD is required since it is within the scope of nursing practice, to work with individuals affected by this experience. Despite distinguished nursing research, PPD remains poorly defined. Yet, it affects up to 19% of Canadian women and has severe, long-term health consequences for the woman and her family. This prevalence rate represents known cases; actual prevalence is likely higher since PPD is often undetected, and women often conceal their symptoms because depression is socially unacceptable in the context of mothering. A qualitative understanding of PPD and services and interventions women value are a prerequisite to developing timely and effective nursing strategies that may limit the duration and seriousness of experience and have positive health consequences for women, their families and society.

Nursing research has been predominantly quantitative, based on the medical model and thus limited in understanding PPD and its prescribed interventions. Currently, the area of intervention strategies remains under-developed. Researchers have not been able to recommend specific prevention or intervention strategies that reduce the risk of developing PPD and intervention studies have failed to provide consistent findings. Also, absent from the literature are intervention studies based on an explicit nursing theoretical framework.

Postpartum depression can interfere with your ability, to take care of you and your baby. Still, if you suffer from postpartum depression, this does not mean you're an ineffectual mother.

Research has shown that depressed mothers interacted less with their babies. For example, they are less likely to feed the baby at the breast, playing with them or reading. They can also show irregularities in the attention they carry the baby. At times, they can show a lot of attention, and sometimes they cannot ignore the child or take care of everything. This inconsistency makes frangile the connection between mother and child when it is precisely because of the commitment that the baby will feel able to discover the world around him.

A secure attachment is formed when the mother meets on a regular basis and consists of the physical and emotional needs of the ...