The Factors Associated with Accelerating and Reducing Postpartum Depression

There is scarce research that has been conducted to understand this mental ailment and how it pertains to new mothers, and what factors cause a new mother to experience PPD. One troubling aspect about this illness is that there is no real knowledge about how many people are afflicted by this each year. The best estimate is that 1.9% to 82.1% women are infected each year (Norhayati, et al., 2015). This is a huge gap that informs researchers that almost no females to almost every female worldwide is plagued by PPD. Even more alarming than this wide range is that little knowledge is available about what factors cause PPD but some of the likely contributing factors are race, socioeconomic status (SES), and family support.