Commentary on Mao Q, Zhu L-X & Su X-Y (2011) A comparison of postnatal depression and related factors between Chinese new mothers and fathers. Journal of Clinical Nursing 20, 645-652.

摘要

Mao et al. (2011) explored the differences in the prevalence of depression and related factors between new mothers and fathers during the postnatal period. Three instruments - the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDE), the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS) - were used in this study. The PSS measures the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as stressful and asks how unpredictable, uncontrollable and overloaded respondents find their lives during the last month. Because the levels of appraised stress are influenced by daily hassles, major events and changes in coping resources, the PSS is an index of general life stress appraisal (Cohen et al. 1983).