Postpartum Depression in New Mothers by Ethnicity/Race
This is a bar chart whereby the x-axis represents different races represented in America while the y-axis represents the percent of new mothers. The title of the graph is Postpartum Depression in New Mothers by Ethnicity/Race (Pederson & Machado, 2019). This study is conducted to evaluate and show that postpartum depression doesn’t only affect new mothers and also shows that there is a race that has a high level of new mothers who are mostly affected by postpartum depression (Di Florio et al., 2017). The variable in this study is postpartum depression (PPD) which refers to a complex emotional, behavioral, and physical change that happens to a woman after giving delivery.
The major finding in this study proving is that postpartum depression does not only affect a new mother. Therefore, in this study, approximately 10% of new fathers experience symptoms of depression during the postpartum period. Additionally, half of the men who have partnered with postpartum depression will go on to develop depression themselves. The updates provided in this study are the finding from other studies which shows that the rates of biological mothers experiencing postpartum depression are comparable to those rates of PPD in adoptive parents (Di Florio et al., 2017). This is evident because the stress that is experienced by biological mothers is different from the adoptive parents whereby the adoptive parents are likely to suffer more due to the societal stigma surrounding them. From the graph, it is evident that 16.6% of biological mothers experience PPD while roughly 8% of adoptive parents experienced severe PPD as compared to biological mothers.
The reason why a bar chart was used is that it makes it easy to compare sets of data between different groups at a glance by representing one category of data on the x-axis and the other one on the Y-axis. This makes it easy to identify the change that has occurred in data for instance in our case it is easy to identify which ethnicity/race is likely to experience PPD than the other. What I have learned about data presentation from the analysis is that data should be presented clearly for easy analysis and interpretation of the targeted group. For instance form, the above data it is easy to the prevalence of postpartum depression affects new mothers in America with the entire race represented. Additionally, it is important to represent data with only the variable that is necessary thus making it easy to compare and interpret at the first sight thus making it easy to analyze the results.
References
Di Florio, A., Putnam, K., Altemus, M., Apter, G., Bergink, V., Bilszta, J., … & Epperson, C. N. (2017). The impact of education, country, race, and ethnicity on the self-report of postpartum depression using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. Psychological Medicine, 47(5), 787-799.
https://www.postpartumdepression.org/resources/statistics/
Pederson, A., & Machado, S. (2019). Shifting Vulnerabilities: Gender, Ethnicity/Race, and Health Inequities in Canada1. Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, 199.