Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 2013:9 15–24 Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment Predictors of postpartum depression in a sample of Egyptian women

Introduction: Postpartum depression (PPD) represents a considerable health problem affecting women and their families. The aims of this study were to: (a) compare female patients with PPD to normal controls with regard to some biopsychosocial variables, (b) correlate between the severity of PPD and some clinical and biological variables, and (c) to predict some risk factors for PPD