ArticleCulture, medicine and psychiatry2020
Postpartum Maternal Mood Among Hadza Foragers of Tanzania: A Mixed Methods Approach.
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- Structural and health system determinants of mental health in Tanzania: mapping policy recommendations to the WHO comprehensive mental health action plan 2013-2030.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Postpartum Depression among Mothers in a Maternity Hospital Kathmandu, Nepal: A Mixed Method Approach.JNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association · 2024Article
- What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Lonely, stressed-out moms: Does the postindustrial social experience put women at risk for perinatal mood disorders?Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2024Review
- The Prevalence of Behavioural Symptoms and Psychiatric Disorders in Hadza Children.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Evidence for an emotional adaptive function of dreams: a cross-cultural study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- How a pregnant woman's relationships with her siblings relate to her mental health: a prenatal allocare perspective.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2022Article
- Harm Avoidance and Mobility During Middle Childhood and Adolescence among Hadza Foragers.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Postpartum depression and mother-offspring conflict over maternal investment.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2021Article
- Changes in Juvenile Foraging Behavior among the Hadza of Tanzania during Early Transition to a Mixed-Subsistence Economy.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Infant and maternal mortality rates are among the highest in the world in low and middle-income countries where postpartum depression impacts at least one in five women. Currently, there is a dearth of data on maternal mood and infant health outcomes in small-scale non-industrial populations from such countries, particularly during the postnatal period. Here, we present the first investigation of postpartum maternal mood among a foraging population, the Hadza of Tanzania. We administered the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) to twenty-three women, all with infants under the age of 12 months. Semi-structured interviews on happiness and unhappiness during the post-partum period served as a validity cross-check for the EPDS. The combined results of the EPDS surveys and the interview responses suggest that a high proportion of Hadza women experience significant mood disturbances following birth and that postpartum unhappiness is associated with self-reports of pain, anxiety, and disturbed sleep patterns. These findings suggest that many of the mothers in our sample are experiencing post-partum unhappiness at levels similar to or higher than those reported for low to middle income countries in general, including Tanzania. These data are critical for improving our understanding of the etiologies of postpartum mood disturbances cross-culturally.
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