To evaluation postpartum depression certain knowledge and practice of the nurses and midwives who are working at primary health care services and to take their opinions about the management of postpartum depression

Seda Nihal ISIK, to evaluation postpartum depression certain knowledge and practice of the nurses and midwives who are working at primary health care services and to take their opinions about the management of postpartum depression, the nursing program in institute of health sciences in university of Gazi. This descriptive study was carried out to determine the elevation of nurses and midwives who are working in health clinics, about their knowledge of postpartum depression and to take their opinions about the management of postpartum depression. The sampling included 302 midwives and nurses working in primary health care center in Ankara municipality. A data collection form was used in collecting data. The collected data where elevated through percentage calculation cross table variables and pearsen Chi- Square, According to the result of research, approximately half of (53.6%) participants are midwives, 85.4% are under age of 40, 94.0% of the participants are married and 4.0% of the are graduated from license or higher degree. Approximately half of the participants, (47.0%) were informed about postpartum depression before. And 87.8% of the participants, determined their knowledge on postpartum depression as moderate and low stage. It was determined that most of the midwives and nurses do not know the definition of postpartum depression (84.4%), risk factors (73.4%) and the diagnos method postpartum depression (72.2%). The statistical evaluations did not demonstrate any difference between profession and the knowledge of their detection of symptoms, risk factors and diagnosis method (p>0.05). However statistical evaluations demonstrated significant differences between educational level and knowledge of detection method and symptoms (p<0.05), moreover the relationship between the knowing the symptoms and informed about postpartum depression was statistically significant (p<0.05), but the relationship between the informed about postpartum depression before and knowing risk factors and diagnosis methods was statistically significant (p>0.05). On the other hand, it was also detected that the participants who met patients with postpartum depression, are more probably to know definition of the postpartum depression (p<0.05). Most of the participants (75.5%) state that there is no nursing service, support able to the evaluation of mental state of mothers in their primary health care center.