Abstract

Abstract:

This study assessed dependent personality, marital satisfaction, and mindful awareness and their association with postpartum depression and anxiety. It was a cross-sectional study of nursing mothers, within 6–14 weeks postpartum, at the postnatal and children's welfare clinics of two tertiary hospitals in Enugu, southeastern Nigeria. The nursing mothers responded to different questionnaires that measure each of these variables. Correlations and multiple regression analyses were used to measure the strength of association between the variables in the study and to identify predictors for the outcome variables of interest, respectively. Low mindful attention awareness, poor marital satisfaction, and low dependency predicted an increased risk of postpartum depression and anxiety, with low mindful attention awareness as the strongest predictor. The findings from the study carry significant implications for the roles of dependent personality, marital satisfaction, and mindful awareness in the etiology of postpartum depression and anxiety in Southeast Nigeria.

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