Evaluation of Effective Factors and its Prevalence on Postpartum Depression Among Women in the City of Qom, Iran

amnesia, repeated dizziness, physical symptoms, ambivalence, negative feeling about the infant, inability to take care of the child, suicide thoughts (7), decreased self-confidence (8), hopelessness and incompetency, sense of guilt, fear and worthlessness (9). According to the family systems theory, any factor that affects one member of a family and causes disorders in their performance within the family system, would inevitably also affect other members of the family, causing disorder in their behavior and performance (10). Prevalence of depression in husbands of the women suffering from this disorder is 5%-20% greater than others (11). Postpartum depression is one of the most important problems that threaten lives of mother, infant and their family ( This disorder would result in decreased level of healthy relationship between mother and the infant (13), disorder in the growth of the infant (14,15), decreased level of mother health, permanent depression in the women, problems and conflicts in the marital relationships Depressed mothers have lower sense of responsibility and responsiveness towards their infants and have complicated