Paternal postpartum depression is a relatively unrecognized phenomenon in nursing tends to increasing gender functions shift and paternal involvement in childcare. Paternal postpartum depression refers to unhappy or sad is experienced by father following childbirth, despite of onset of paternal depression not exactly understood. Antecedence factors include hormonal, neuroticism, personal history of depression, depression in couple, marital satisfaction, life events and social support. Effect of paternal postpartum depression may be on his self, father – infant interaction and couple relationship. Paternal postpartum depression is measured in same ways that maternal postpartum depression has been measured. Such as the Schedule of Affective Disorders and Schizoprenia (SADS), the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-II-R (SCID), The self report measures most commonly used for determining depression status were the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression (CES-D). The possible differences in how men and women express emotional distress need to be acknowledged, thus specific instruments for assessing the dimensions of men’s depression need to be developed.
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