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Article Type

Original Research

Authors

Noury   R. (*)
Karimi   N. (1)
Mohammadi‎   M. (2)






(*) Psychology Department, Psychology & Educational Sciences Faculty, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
(1) ‎Psychology & Educational Sciences Faculty, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
(2) ‎Sarem Fertiliy and Infertility Research Center (SAFIR), Sarem Women’s Hospital, Tehran, Iran

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Article History

Received:   April  20, 2016
Accepted:   October 16, 2016
ePublished:   November 15, 2017

ABSTRACT

Aims Depression during pregnancy is one of the risk factors for postpartum depression ‎and other complications of mothers and infants‏.‏‎ The objective of this study was to ‎determine the relationships between social support and marital satisfaction with ‎depression during pregnancy.‎
Materials & Methods This descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 70 pregnant women who ‎referred to private clinics of Karaj (Iran) during a period of 6 months to receive ‎prenatal care in the last 3 months of gestation. The information of the women was ‎collected by Beck depression inventory (BDI-II), Enrich marital satisfaction and ‎Wax social support (SS-A) questionnaires. The data were analyzed by correlation ‎coefficient, regression variance analysis (univariate and multivariate) using SPSS ‎software.‎
Findings There were significant correlations between depression during pregnancy with ‎social support (r= -0.368) and marital satisfaction (r=-0.316). Social support and ‎marital satisfaction predicted 15.3% of prenatal depression’s variances. Social ‎support was a better predictor for prenatal depression than marital satisfaction.‎
Conclusion There are significant correlations between depression during pregnancy with ‎social support and marital satisfaction. Social support has a more important role ‎in the prediction of depression during pregnancy than marital satisfaction.‎


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