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1 دانشیار، گروه روانپزشکی، مرکز تحقیقات روانپزشکی و علوم رفتاری، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تبریز، تبریز، ایران
2 دانشجوی دکتری روانشناسی، واحد علوم تحقیقات آ.شرقی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد تبریز، تبریز، ایران
3 استاد، گروه روانپزشکی، مرکز تحقیقات روانپزشکی و علوم رفتاری، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تبریز، تبریز، ایران
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Background: Postpartum depression is the most common psychiatric complication of childbirth, imposing serious impacts on the psychological and physical health of the mother and child. This study aimed to compare decision-making and attention in women with postpartum depression and their healthy counterparts.
Methods: The current research was conducted using case-control and causal-comparative research designs. The statistical population of this research was all the mothers referred to the health centers of Tabriz, and 30-40 days had passed since their delivery. Purposeful sampling was employed to select 35 individuals, who were screened by the Postpartum Depression Scale and divided into two groups consisting of mothers with postpartum depression (n = 16) and their healthy counterparts (n = 19), matched in terms of age and education level. The research tools included the Iowa gambling and the Stroop color-word computer tests to measure decision-making and attention, respectively. The data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).
Findings: The results showed that, overall, there is no significant difference between the two groups in the attention variable. Still, there is a significant difference in some of the subscales of congruent reaction time and incongruent reaction time in the two groups of postpartum depressed women and healthy peers. There is (P < 0.05). Also, the research findings indicate that there was no significant difference in the decision-making variable of both groups, and they showed poor performance.
Conclusion: The findings of this research show that postpartum depression is likely to be associated with problems in attention, and by knowing this correlation, more effective steps can be taken to prevent and provide psychological services to affected people.
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