Psychometric properties of Postpartum Partner Support Scale-Persian version.
Zahra Eslahi, Zainab Alimoradi, Nasim Bahrami and 3 others
PMID 33608977WHAT IT FOUND
The Persian 20-item postpartum partner support questionnaire was usable for 270 first-time mothers in Iran.
Women reporting more support also reported fewer depressive symptoms.
Key findings
01The 20-item Persian partner support scale had excellent internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha 0.94) and item-total correlations from 0.49 to 0.82, with no floor or ceiling effects.
02The responses fit a model in which the scale measures one partner-support construct.
03Higher partner support scores were associated with lower postpartum depression scores.
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What it does not show
Both the partner-support scale and the depression scale were self-report, so social desirability, recall bias, and common method variance may have affected the answers. Participants were first-time mothers with healthy babies and a partner, and women with physical or mental illness or pregnancy or childbirth complications were excluded, so the results may not apply to higher-risk postpartum women. The women were recruited from one area of Iran, so generalisability to other populations is limited. The study tested a questionnaire's properties and did not test an intervention, so it cannot show that improving partner support reduces postpartum depression.
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The authors declared no conflict of interest. The supplied text does not state a funding source.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the negative association as proof that increasing partner support prevents postpartum depression. This was a one-time questionnaire validation among first-time mothers in one area of Iran, and it did not test a support intervention.