Correlation between the emotion regulation strategies and the maternal and infant health literacy of pregnant women and their postpartum depression
Objective:To investigate the influencing factors of the postpartum depression of pregnant women,and to analyze the correlation between the postpartum depression of the women and their emotion regulation strategies and the maternal and infant health literacy.Methods:220 women who had giving birth in hospital from October 2020 to De-cember 2023 were selected as the study objects.The general data of these women were investigated.Edinburgh postna-tal depression scale(EPDS),emotion regulation questionnaire(ERQ),and maternal and infant health literacy assess-ment questionnaire were used to evaluate the postpartum depression situation,the emotion regulation strategies and the maternal and infant health literacy of the women.Pearson analysis was used to explore the correlation between the postpartum depression of the women and their emotion regulation strategies and the maternal and infant health literacy.The influencing factors of the postpartum depression of the women were analyzed by binary logistic regression.Re-sults:Among 220 women,2 cases were lost to follow-up within 6 weeks after delivery,and 9 cases were unqualified for the retrieval questionnaire,so a total of 11 cases were excluded and 209 cases were included for analysis finally.A-mong 209 women,there were 32(15.3%)women with postpartum depression in group A and 177(84.7%)women without postpartum depression in group B.Univariate analysis showed that the education level,the unplanned pregnan-cy,the parturient type,the full-term delivery and the neonatal diseases of the women were related to their postpartum depression(P<0.05).Pearson correlation showed that the maternal and infant health literacy and the ERQ cognitive reappraisal score of the women were negatively correlated with their postpartum depression,while the ERQ expression inhibition of the women was positively correlated with their postpartum depression(all P<0.05).Binary logistic re-gression showed that the unplanned pregnancy,the primipara,the neonatal disease,the cognitive reappraisal,the score of ERQ cognitive reappraisal,the high ERQ expression inhibition and the low maternal and infant health literacy level of the women were the influencing factors of their postpartum depression(all P<0.05).Conclusion:The post-partum depression occurrence of the women is affected by many factors,among which,the emotion regulation strate-gies and the maternal and infant health literacy of the women are closely related to their postpartum depression.The re-lated factors should be paid attention to in clinic and the targeted interventions should be made accordingly to these re-lated factors for reducing the incidence of the postpartum depression of the women.
Postpartum depressionInfluencing factorEmotion regulation strategyMaternal and infant health litera-cyCorrelation