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Mothers' mental health model showing the relationship between perceived levels of social support, report of common mental disorders and contextual/demographic factors
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Globally, 13–20% of women experience a common mental disorder (CMD) postnatally. Unfortunately, the burden of CMDs is disproportionally substantial in women from low-income countries. Nevertheless, there is a growing recognition of the buffering effect of social support (SS) on psychiatric morbidity and the need for mental well-being supp...
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... was 42.7 (SD 10.8), denoting high levels of SS. Additionally, 29.1% of the mothers showed excessive psychiatric morbidity and Page 3 of 7 Kaseke et al. BMC Res Notes (2019) 12:110 the median SSQ score was 5 (IQR: 2-8) (Table 1). See Additional files 1 and 2 for frequencies of reported prob- lems on the MSPSS and SSQ respectively. Illustrated in Fig. 1 is the model explaining the buff- ering effects of social support on psychiatric morbidity (r = − 0.585, p = 0.01) and the associated contextual fac- tors. The model accounted for 70% of the variance (See Additional file 3) and displayed excellent fit as outlined in Table 2. Being unmarried, lower education status, lower income level, ...
