An Estimation of the Association of Postpartum Depression with Mizaj ( Temperament ) in Postnatal Women : A Cross - Sectional Study

Although pregnancy and childbirth have embodied the time of contentment and pleasure in every woman’s life, according to the physicians of ancient (Unani) and recent times they also contribute to the substantial threat to the mental health of women (1-5). The expression postpartum depression is merely used for a nonpsychotic depressive illness of mild-tomoderate severity belonging or extending into the first postnatal year (6-13) and generally observed within 4–6 or 6–8 weeks of delivery (3,14). It is also defined as the depression similar to atypical depression at other times of the major public health problem seen in both developed (10%–15%) and developing countries (11%–42%) (15,16).