Immigrant women's experiences of postpartum depression in Canada: a protocol for systematic review using a narrative synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Literature documents that immigrant women in Canada have a higher prevalence of postpartum depression symptomatology than Canadian-born women. There exists a need to synthesize information on the contextual factors and social determinants of health that influence immigrant women's reception of and behavior in accessing existing mental health services. Our research question is: what are the ethnoculturally defined patterns of help-seeking behaviors and decision-making and other predictive factors for therapeutic mental health care access and outcomes with respect to postpartum depression for immigrant women in Canada?

Methods/design

Our synthesis incorporates a systematic review using narrative synthesis of reports (peer- and non-peer reviewed) of empirical researc

SUBMITTER: Higginbottom GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3765819 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature