First-generation Nigerian mothers living in the UK and their experience of postnatal depression: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Objective: Previous studies emphasise the negative psychological and physical consequences of Postnatal Depression (PND) on mothers and children's health. In the UK, around 10-20% of women can be affected by perinatal mental health problems. Minority ethnic groups such as Black African mothers are considered to be at greater risk of developing PND and data estimates that immigrant mothers are twice more likely to develop PND than native mothers.

Recovery from postnatal depression: a consumer's perspective.

To identify factors that women who have recovered from postnatal depression consider to be important in the recovery process and to measure the consensus among recovered women regarding the importance of those factors. A two-panel, three-round adapted Delphi exercise supplemented by a user-led interpretation work-shop. Panel one consisted of ten women who had been treated by a health visitor for and recovered from postnatal depression.