M8,11,12: Mood, Breast & Pelvic Health, Loss Flashcards
What is postpartum depression?
Clinical depression
Categorized by DSM-5 as major depressive disorder with peripartum onset
What are screening tools for PPD?
Postpartum Depression Screening Scale (PDSS)
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS): score of above 12 = PPD
What is the treatment for PPD?
individual or group psychotherapy, antidepressants, or a combination of both
Risk factors for PPD
- History of major depression
- Depression during pregnancy
- History of postpartum depression or bipolar illness (recurrence rates are ≥ 20%)
- Stressful life events
- Primiparity
- Ambivalence about maintaining the pregnancy
- Occurrence of postpartum blues
- Lack of social support
- Lack of a stable and supportive relationship with parents (especially her father, as a child) or partner
- The woman’s dissatisfaction with herself, including body image problems and eating disorders
- Complications of delivery
- Loss of newborn
- Age (adolescence increases risk).
what are signs of depression?
anxiety, irritability, poor concentration, forgetfulness, sleeping difficulties, appetite change, fatigue, and tearfulness
listen for statements indicating feelings of failure and self-accusation
what is postpartum psychosis?
postpartum mood episodes with psychotic features
Is postpartum psychosis emergent?
yes, due to risk of infanticide or suicide
What is the treatment for postpartum psychosis?
directed at the specific type of psychotic symptoms displayed
may include lithium, antipsychotics, or electroconvulsive therapy in combination with psychotherapy, removal of the baby, and social support
What are symptoms of postpartum psychosis?
- Sleep disturbances—the woman is unable to sleep, even when her baby is sleeping
- Depersonalization—seemingly unaware of or distant from the immediate environment and individuals within it
- Confusion; irrational or disorganized thinking; bizarre behaviors
- Hallucinations; delusions
- Psychomotor disturbances—stupor or agitated state sometimes accompanied by rapid and incoherent speech.
What are the risk factors for postpartum psychosis?
- previous postpartum psychosis
- history of bipolar disorder
- Family history of postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder have also been found to increase the risk
What is swansons caring theory?
outlines five caring processes: knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, and maintaining belief
Which process of caring theory: attempting to understand the event as it has meaning in the life of the parents
knowing
Which process of caring theory: nurse’s ability to reach beyond professionalism and give of herself or himself as a human being
being with
Which process of caring theory: means that nurse does for the parents as she or he would have things done for her or him in the same situation
Doing for
Which process of caring theory: facilitation of the parents’ passage through life transitions and unfamiliar events
enabling
which process of caring theory: believing in the parents’ capacity to get through the event and face a future with meaning.
maintaining belief