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Abstract
PPD refers to a non-psychotic depressive period, which starts in postpartum period, and is characterized by symptoms, such as crying, helplessness, feelings of guilt, insufficient concentration, fatigue, loss of appetite, sleep disorders, and inability feelings in dealing with the baby. Infertility has considered a personal and social stress and psychological pressure on couples that, in various ways, threaten their mental health. It can impair marital quality, reduce intimacy and fear of termination of relationship, separation, and divorce, reduce self-esteem and feelings of rejection from the family and the community that the set of these factors can predispose a person to the psychological disorders such as PPD and a weakening in marital quality.
The aim of the current study is improving maternal psychological health and increasing the awareness of health care providers towards postpartum depression among women who conceived by assisted reproductive techniques. In the current study, all cases were evaluated within 6 weeks after birth. The present study included primigravidae and multiparous women who suffered infertility issues and got pregnant by ART.
Inclusion criteria included Female’s age ≥ 18 years old, conceived by one of ART (e.g. intrauterine insemination, in vitro fertilization, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, cryopreservation of gametes or embryos, frozen embryo transfer), within 6 weeks after delivery and selected from gynecology and obstetrics department of the Suez Canal University Hospitals, Ismailia.
Exclusion criteria included females who refuse to participate at our study, who conceived naturally,