Impacto da depressão pós-parto na vida conjugal no distrito Municipal Kamubukwana na cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This study focuses on “Impact of Postpartum Depression on Marital Life in KaMubukwana Municipal District”. The general objective of this research is to analyze the impact of postpartum depression on the marital life of residents of the KaMubukwana Municipal District in the city of Maputo. In methodological terms, the research is mixed, descriptive, bibliographic, documentary and monographic. Interview, questionnaire research techniques and observation were applied to collect data. Through the data collection instruments applied to the research, this study provides evidence that there is a significant deficiency in the Mozambican literature regarding postpartum depression. Furthermore, there is little lack of knowledge regarding the consequences and causes behind postpartum depression in the life of the woman, the baby, in married life and in society. The causes indicated by the research are merely superficial, as the literature presents other causes that have negative implications in the psychological, social, economic and family domains. Therefore, the research found that postpartum depression constitutes a serious, identifiable and treatable depressive disorder and could correspond to the most common complication resulting from childbirth in women