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POSTNATAL DEPRESSION: AN UNDERSTANDING OF MALAYSIAN PERSPECTIVES

Siti Roshaidai Binti Mohd Arifin, Helen Cheyne and Margaret Maxwell


Background: Postpartum depression (PND) is considered as a significant health problem and gained special attention due to women’s vulnerability during childbearing years, highly associated with suicide and its negative impacts on women, child, family and society. Despite these concerns, PND has still remains underdiagnosed and undertreated in the clinical practice. Previous studies suggest that sociocultural context of motherhood have a link with PND and that treatment of PND should be culturally appropri