Health Care for Women International
Volume 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 593-617

Shifting landscapes: Immigrant women and postpartum depression (Article)

Morrow M.* , Smith J.E. , Lai Y. , Jaswal S.
  • a Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada, #6-1263 West 8th Ave., Vancouver, BC V6H IC7, Canada
  • b Provincial Reproductive Mental Health Program, British Columbia Women's Hospital and Health Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • c Department of Counselling and Educational Psychology and Special Education, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
  • d Family Services of Greater Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Abstract

Utilizing an ethnographic narrative approach, we explored in the Canadian context the experiences of three groups of first-generation Punjabi-speaking, Cantonese-speaking, and Mandarin-speaking immigrant women with depression after childbirth. The information emerging from women's narratives of their experiences reveals the critical importance of the sociocultural context of childbirth in understanding postpartum depression. We suggest that an examination of women's narratives about their experiences of postpartum depression can broaden the understanding of the kinds of perinatal supports women need beyond health care provision and yet can also usefully inform the practice of health care professionals. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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Index Keywords

puerperal depression cultural anthropology Asian psychological aspect human Life Change Events middle aged life event Asian continental ancestry group social support ethnology Humans Canada Acculturation female verbal communication pregnancy Mothers cultural factor Narration Article mother adult migration Emigration and Immigration postnatal care Anthropology, Cultural Depression, Postpartum Postpartum Period puerperium
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-45849136412&doi=10.1080%2f07399330802089156&partnerID=40&md5=b6d282562b975126d33c1bdd3787253f
DOI: 10.1080/07399330802089156
ISSN: 07399332
Cited by: 40
Original Language: English