Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Social support and antenatal depression in extended and nuclear family environments in Turkey: a cross-sectional survey | Senturk et al. BMC Psychiatry 2011 11 48 http 1471-244X 11 48 BMC Psychiatry RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Social support and antenatal depression in extended and nuclear family environments in Turkey a cross-sectional survey Vesile Senturk1 Melanie Abas2 Oguz Berksun1 and Robert Stewart2 Abstract Background Social support is strongly implicated in the aetiology of perinatal mental disorder particularly the quality of the marital and family environment. Family structures are important under-researched potential modifiers. Turkey offers particular advantages for research in this area because of long-standing coexistence of Western and Middle Eastern family structures. We aimed to investigate associations between the quality of key relationships and depression in women in their third trimester of pregnancy and the extent to which these associations were modified by family structure. Method Women attending antenatal clinics in their third trimester were recruited from urban and rural settings in Ankara. A nuclear family structure was defined as a wife and husband living alone or with their children in the same household whereas a traditional extended family structure was defined if another adult was living with the married couple in the same household. Depression was ascertained using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale EPDS and social support was assessed by the Close Person Questionnaire with respect to the husband mother and mother-inlaw. Social support was compared between participants with without case-level depression on the EPDS in linear regression models adjusted for relevant covariates then stratified by nuclear traditional family structure. Results Of 772 women approached 751 participated and 730 had sufficient data for this analysis. Prevalence of case-level depression was and this was associated with lower social support from all three family members but not with traditional nuclear family structure. The .
