Table 3.

Crude and adjusted odds ratio for the risk of PPD in women who had pre-eclampsia or eclampsia according to socio-demographic, obstetric and psychosocial variables (N = 79)

Variable	Depression N (%)	OR (95%CI)	Adjusted OR (95%CI)	P value
Age (years)
< 20	13 (16.5)	7.55 (2.71–21.04)*	10.19 (1.99–52.02)	0.005
20–34	58 (73.4)	2.71 (1.24–5.94)*	5.7 (1.93–17.06)	0.002
≥ 35	8 (10.1)	1	1
Marital status
Married/cohabiting	43 (54.4)	1	1
Single/divorced/separated	36 (45.6)	8.34 (4.63–15.04)*	3.18 (1.02–9.95)	0.047
Level of education
Lower level education	65 (82.3)	2.59 (1.39–4.83)*	3.83 (1.45–10.19)	0.007
Higher level education	14 (17.7)	1	1
Occupation
Housewife/unemployed	36 (45.6)	2.88 (1.19–6.92)*	0.78 (0.23–2.67)	0.690
Self employed	36 (45.6)	1.65 (0.69–3.93)
Employed	7 (8.9)	1
Parity
Primipara	33 (41.8)	1.7 (1.02–2.84)*	0.79 (0.33–1.90)	0.610
Multipara	46 (58.2)	1	1
Neonatal outcome
Livebirth	44 (55.7)	1	1
Perinatal death	35 (44.3)	2.96 (1.76–4.99)*	5.14 (2.53–10.45)	< 0.001
Family support
Not satisfied	36 (45.6)	18.9 (9.30–38.52)*	7.06 (1.25–39.99)	0.027
Satisfied	43 (54.4)	1	1
Partner support
Not supportive	39 (49.4)	16.6 (8.61–32.14)*	0.91 (0.05–16.29)	0.950
Supportive	40 (50.6)	1	1
Partner relationship
Very Good	40 (50.6)	1	1
Good	21 (22.8)	10.8 (5.07–22.85)	0.71 (0.04–12.26)	0.810
Poor	18 (26.6)	21.5 (8.07–57.43)*	0.69 (0.52–9.26)	0.780
Financial problems
Yes	39 (49.4)	12.6 (6.8–23.45)*	2.53 (0.79–8.03)	0.120
No	40 (50.6)	1	1
Stressful event
Yes	11 (13.9)	16.4 (4.45–60.34)*	15.14 (2.38–96.19)	0.004
No	68 (86.1)	1	1

Perinatal death- included women who had a stillborn baby and neonatal death

N Number of participants, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval

*significant association (p < 0.05)