Prevalência de gravidez não desejada em puérperas diagnosticadas com depressão em um centro de atenção à saúde da mulher

Abstract

Abstract Depressive syndromes are a major public health concern affecting around 2 to 5% of the population. Striking vital events such as pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium may be known to precede the onset of depression. This research, with a descriptive quantitative cross-sectional approach, carried out with 55 women, over 18 years old, attended at the Reference Center for Women's Health in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, in 2019, aimed to infer the prevalence of unwanted pregnancies in mothers diagnosed with depression, as well as identifying associations between unwanted pregnancies and sociodemographic variables. The results showed that the average age of the sample was 29.6 years (SD = 7.82), the vast majority reported being white (80%), native of Passo Fundo (85.5%), single (40%). ), unemployed (67.3%), with income between 0 and 2 minimum wages (65.5%). As for education, there was the same prevalence of mothers who have incomplete and complete high school, both categories with 38.2% prevalence. Regarding life habits, approximately 22% of the mothers reported smoking during pregnancy; 38.2% drink alcohol and 7.3% illicit drug use. It was possible to infer that approximately 70% of the mothers did not wish to have gotten pregnant and that 60% had a diagnosis of postpartum depression at the time of the interview. However, no significant association was found between unwilling to become pregnant and the development of postpartum depression (p = 1.17). Data analysis revealed that the vast majority of the sociodemographic variables analyzed were not predictive of whether or not pregnancy was desired, except for smoking and alcoholism.